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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
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Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll)
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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  /\==/\
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