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From: leem@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: The Last Word on Friedman, Sevener, and Cuba
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Date: 14 Mar 88 15:04:05 GMT
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In article <3904@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (45263-SEVENER,T.J.) writes:
:In article <3588@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
:> : my explanation of the principle of refraction, 
:> : I will herein post quotes from "An Introduction to the
:> : Meaning and Structure of Physics" by Leon N. Cooper.
:> : It is an introductory college physics textbook.
:>
:>And my calculations are based on (besides common sense and scientific
:>reasoning) the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, an astronomy
:>textbook, and class notes for an astronomy course.
:
:Which has nothing to do with the issue involved here.
:We are not talking about an astronomical object - we are
:not talking about a transition from SeaLevel air density to a
:practical vacumn.  We are talking about a tangent line of
:sight which at the *maximum* is 2059 feet high out of an atmosphere
:180 miles thick.
:
:
:tim sevener  whuts!orb

Can you say "inversion", I knew you could.  A well known atmosphereic
effect, see numerous past articles in Scientific American.

Lee

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