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To: samtheman

Your yahoo ‘voted upon’ solution is wrong. The weight of an object at sea level is the same at the equator as a pole because the seas form an equi-potential surface. The water corrects for variations in gravitational and centrifugal accelerations.


259 posted on 04/04/2008 9:26:59 AM PDT by Poincare (Hope is nostalgia for the future.)
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To: Poincare
Your yahoo ‘voted upon’ solution is wrong. The weight of an object at sea level is the same at the equator as a pole because the seas form an equi-potential surface. The water corrects for variations in gravitational and centrifugal accelerations.
You must have meant to reply to someone else because I don't know anything about any Yahoo voting.

As far as your description of weights at the equator vs. the pole... talk about yahoo... wow, what about on dry land at the equator... what about on Mars, where there is no sea?

This whole thread has the look and feel of a thread on UFO sightings, which thankfully don't show up very much in FR.

261 posted on 04/04/2008 12:01:05 PM PDT by samtheman
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