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Article #4514Re: NASA Coverup
From: Jim Carr
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:12
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 21:12
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In article <1992Nov9.172600.17151@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: > >Nope: you can deduce the mass of the moon from the magnitude of the >ocean tides. > >[I Newton: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, > Book III, Prop XXXVII, Problem XVIII] Is such an estimate really all that accurate? I have always discounted it since the height (not to mention the timing) of tides depend to such a large extent on local conditions. Is this method accurate to a factor of 2 given the calculational tools in Newton's day? -- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges." Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!swrinde!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!ds8.scri.fsu.edu!jac From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: NASA Coverup Message-ID: <11291@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 9 Nov 92 21:12:19 GMT References: <4576@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <11283@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <1992Nov9.172600.17151@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 18