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Subject: Re:  Re: Re: Bang! or whot?
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 15:44:24 EDT
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From:  mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley (Rick McGeer (on an aaa-60-s))

>The first involves the first manned flight to the moon.  Using
>the predictions of the age of the moon and earth and their time
>together, scientists predicted that Armstrong would step out into
>eight feet of moon dust.  He stepped into two inches of dust.
>Using this true answer and recalculating the figures, the age of
>the moon is approximately 8,000 years.

A more reasonable explanation for the depth measurement is vacuum cementing.
No?

>The second example is about two biblical accounts of the sun's
>motion being disturbed.  In one account, the sun sttod still for
>about a day.  In the other, the sun moved backwards three steps
>on the temple, which equates to approximately 10 degrees (1/36)
>of the sun's daily orbit.  Now, using orbital calculations to
>determine the sun's position at any point in time (future or
>past) it is possible to determine where the sun should be or
>should have been for any given date.  There was a published
>article some years ago which reported that there are almost
>exactly 24 hours "missing" from the sun's position.

Reference?

				Rick.