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In article <3rqcr9$a4g@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, shelter@peg.apc.org (Madhudvisah dasa Swami) writes:

> Actually it's all about the theory you accept... I have heard a story that
> many years ago some farmers came into town to report some extraordinary
> events that had occurred on their farms. They reported there were rocks
> falling from the sky! So the scientists naturally thought the poor fellows
> were crazy... How could rocks fall from the sky. It was only when they had
> a valid scientific theory [these rocks were, of course, the result of
> volcanic erruptions on the moon!] that they could accept the farmers
> stories... Of course we now call rocks falling from the sky meteorites and
> there is no problem.

Problem:  there is no volcanic activity on the moon, and if there were any,
there is no way that the rocks could be ejected with enough velocity to
escape the moon's gravitational pull.  Meteors do exist, and some of them
do originate from the moon, but vulcanism has nothing to do with it.  They
have to be knocked off the moon by a substantial impact.

-- K.

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