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From: lhl@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: StarDate: July 11 Wind
Message-ID: <28159@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 11:52:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 11:52:17 1985
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> 
> On our planet Earth, the wind is always blowing somewhere.  So the wind
> must ve a constantly renewable source of energy.  It turns out that the
> wind stems from the ultimate energy source of almost everything on
> Earth -- the sun.
> 

*** OPUS LIVES !!! ***

  Which is puzzling:  since the air is heated in the morning, and
cools in the evening, why isn't there a constant wind (shock wave,
actually) at the speed of the earth's rotation?