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Subject: Lunar artillery [sic, more like rifles shooting]
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 23:36:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 23:36:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

    Date: 1 Apr 1984  09:48 PST (Sun)
    From: Ian Macky <Ian@SRI-NIC>
    I seem to remember that the projectiles the Americans and Russians
    were firing at each other were ... rifle rounds ... fired parallel to the
    ground, and so were able to make it all the way around and sneak up
    from behind.
Hmmm, well then maybe the original story was basically correct, except
I'm rather amazed such high-speed bullets were used for such close
combat, but maybe... I presume the two bases were on the equator,
oriented east-west from each other, so rotation of the moon wouldn't
cause bullets to miss launch point laterally? (They would still "miss"
longitudinally as Moon rotates, causing nearest-point not to be
exactly the same, so bullet is rising or falling just above
nearest-point when returning to starting point, but only by
1-cos(angle) which is incredibly small for small angles.)

I stand tentatively corrected.