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To: Clarksterh who wrote (404)	2/6/2003 1:57:03 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 627

Message 18545288 AND BTW, I'm a big supporter of the space program, and I'm not out to kill it. I Don't want to burn down the barn to weed out the rats , progress not perfection is one of my mottoes.

To: Clarksterh who wrote (404)	2/7/2003 2:31:15 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 627

RE> You do not grasp basic physics. I've given this some thought, you being in an Astonautics expert and all, perhaps I don't understand what you mean by basic physics. While I'm not a physicist or science expert, I have seen films of the astronauts in weightless conditions, and they move about with very little effort, a light finger touch can propel them a great bit, so I still don't see how if they went out to look that they could have put enough pressure on any tiles to have hurt anything that wasn't ready to drop off anyway. Why with just a 5ft lb worth of push they would likely get any where they would want to go.. You do know what torque is ? and 5ft lb is very little, but more than enough to move all about the space ship. --- While I'm at it, perhaps you can refresh my memory, some years ago I worked out some calculations, and got some collage kids involved ( before the internet when we were still using BBS systems and FIDO to talk ) any way I set out to prove the Moon was not our Satellite but instead our Sister Planet. I had picked this up from Asimov and thought it was worth pushing around. First let me define Satellite. A satellite will be a body which is effected "more" by the mothers gravity than by other gravity forces. It turned out that the moon is effected about 2.19 times more by the suns gravity than by earth's. While we are joined at the hip we don't have the predominate gravity force effecting the Moon, the Sun does. So the Moon is not a moon, but a Sister Planet. Some how we roughly worked it out placing the masses of the sun and moon into Newton's equation, and came up with roughly 2.19 or 2.2 in favor of the Sun. Perhaps you might remind me how we did this, it was very basic physics. Jim