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From: jsf@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Fritzinger)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: 3 *million*, not 3 billion
Message-ID: <1081@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Sep-86 12:57:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1081
Posted: Sun Sep  7 12:57:31 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Sep-86 06:07:09 EDT
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Reston, Va.
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Keywords: corrects a 3 order of magnitude typo

Last week I posted a reply to one of Ted Holden's articles. In that 
article Ted had explained that the Earth had once orbited Saturn, and
that the North Pole was permenatly pointing at Saturn.  The Earth also
was close enough to Saturn that Saturn's gravitational pull caused the
attenuation of the felt effect of gravity on the Earth surface that Ted
claims was needed in order for the large dinosuars to exist.

In my relpy I worked out a rough estimate of the distance between the Earth
and Saturn if Ted's theory was correct.  Upon rereading my reply, I realized
that I had said that distance was 3 billion miles rather than 3 million
miles.  This was obviously incorrect wrong since the Earth is only 93 million
miles from the sun, and there is no attenuation felt today.

A problem I stated for Ted is below.

At the North Pole Saturn's pull would oppose the Earth's and cause the
reduced gravity Ted describes.  But as one moved closer to the equator
a smaller and smaller fraction of Saturn's pull would oppose the Earth's
until at the equator an object would feel it's full weight plus a force
equal to half it's weight pulling it north.  Around the latitudes most of
the really large fossils have been found, and where most of the civilizations
Ted quotes lived,  an object would have a pull of at least 1/3 of it's
weight toward the north.

My question for Ted is: How were Ultrasaurs able to stand up and walk with
that sidesway pull?  How were ancient civilizations able to build anything
that stood upright?  How was sea travel possible?  A ship has nothing to
brace against, and since the warm air in the northern hemishpere would rise
up and pull cold air from the dark southern hemisphere, prevailing winds would
always be from the south.  Any ship that made it to the open sea would be
on a one way trip to the North pole.  And why in all thier writings, didn't
the acients ever mention this pull, or the way it suddenly stopped after
your seven days of cosmic pinball?

In closing let me apoligize for any problem the error in the original article
caused.

Steve Fritzinger CCI-OSG Reston,Va.
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