Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: A couple of old Physics puzzles Message-ID: <2154@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 16:30:27 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2154 Posted: Fri Jan 4 16:30:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 04:20:44 EST References: <327@bonnie.UUCP> <47@rti-sel.UUCP> <333@bonnie.UUCP> <50@rti-sel.UUCP> <245@petrus.UUCP> <446@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Distribution: net Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 18 Summary: In article <446@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes: >Rich Hammond writes: >> The earth rotates and the water piles up on the edge of the Americas >> on one side and pulls away on the other. ... >> ... If the >> earth stopped rotating, I would expect the ocean levels to equalize. > If the earth stopped rotating, I would expect the oceans to slop across > the continents for awhile first. Very messy. Messy? Perhaps true, but it is one quick way to rinse out all them toxic waste dumps! :-) chongo/\==/\ -- Lome tiranar? Ash Urnikx arda! Ash thrakatuluk krimpatul! A chant from the AT&T marketing book