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From: g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,sci.misc
Subject: Re: The Last Word on Friedman, Sevener, and Cuba
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Date: 13 Mar 88 00:13:06 GMT
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In article <3904@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (45263-SEVENER,T.J.) writes:

	Sundry calculations and noises deleted.

For reasons that escape me, some person claimed to have seen Cuba from
a Florida key, and Mr. Sevener find this claim to be politically repre-
hensible and in fact false, since, according to Mr. Sevener, this is
physically impossible.

I do not know whether the person in question actually saw Cuba or whether
the local atmospheric conditions are right for this.  However, in fact,
sightings at distances greater than 90 miles across level ground are
common and well known.  Some, in Northern Africa, are stable situtations
that have been seen since classical times.  There is no a priori reason
that X could not have seen Cuba.

Followups have been directed to talk.politics.misc only, since I have
seen precious little science in this discussion.
-- 

In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
	Richard Harter, SMDS  Inc.