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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: heavenly bodies
Message-ID: <2108@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 00:06:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 00:06:59 1984
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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The argument about tying a rope from the moon to the earth doesn't hold
water.  If the earth end of that rope were moved to the sun then it
WOULD end up winding around the moon.  All you proved was that the moon
keeps the same face towards the earth, which is well known.
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			Barry Margolin
			ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
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