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In lugnet.space, Jeff Jardine writes:
> In lugnet.space, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> > If we ignore the gravitational damage to the earth
> > (tides, crust stresses, etc) and the fact that the earth is still
> > rotating, how long would you get to watch the moon before it landed
> > on you? The first person to answer will get a cookie(*)!
> >
> > (*) DISCLAIMER: cookie offer will not be honoured.
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> I get 3.5 days, ignoring the motion of the earth toward the moon.
> Don't worry about the cookie - LUGNET provides free cookies for us all. :)
Holy cow, it's that long?! Man, cool or not, forget that..., too long!
Call me when the moon's an hour away. Now *that* would look cool, if
it was the first time you'd looked up in a few days.
Plus, the apparent gravity on the earth's surface in between them
would have dropped, and people would be setting all kinds of new
Olympic records :]
KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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| (...) I never spotted this before, but it's further proof that there's negligible friction in space. If there was, the Moon would have slowed down in it's orbit and fallen to Earth, and the Earth would slow down and fall into the sun. Actually, I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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