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To: SunkenCiv

You never disappoint;)

Has the Earth’s orbit ever changed with these violent assaults? Not even a smidgeon?

p.s. Someone needs to smack Mel Gibson:)


26 posted on 07/13/2010 5:15:24 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: sodpoodle; bigheadfred

That’s true about Mel Gibson, and Russell Crowe for that matter. Weird, because I pretty much always like them in their film roles, *and* I like Australia. Ah well.

[’Civ pauses as he’s seized by an AC/DC “Rock and Roll Train” flashback]

[’Civ pauses as the previous flashback triggers a “Friday On My Mind” flashback]

Whew. Luckily, there wasn’t a Crowded House flashback.

The mass of the Earth has always been really, really huge by comparison with the impactors; in order to get a handle on how the Earth’s orbit might have changed (and it would have changed a smidgeon, probably) we’d have to have some idea of what the Earth’s orbit *was*, and that’s probably going to remain a matter of speculation until some clever person figures out time travel of some sort. ;’)


31 posted on 07/13/2010 5:28:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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