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Re: John Leo's opinion of "The West Wing"
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:54:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> I often wondered what would happen if we were to drill an 8 foot hole
> straight through the planet (of course, this idea assumes the core of the
> earth to be a nice room temperature, not molten rock...) and if wer were to
> jump down said hole--would we go past the center of the planet, slow down on
> the way to the other surface and just basically bounce back and forth thru
> the tunnel until we came to rest, free floating, at the exact center of the
> planet?
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_131.html
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 | | Re: John Leo's opinion of "The West Wing"
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| (...) <snip> intellectual posturor! (...) This is what I meant by Spock phrasing it better--he said something like 'on a planet with positive gravity'--it's ST:TOS--when was the last time I caught one of those episodes? ;) I don't have to witness (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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