To: Doctor Stochastic
Scratch my last post. I don't like it.
113 posted on
12/05/2003 4:31:45 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: PatrickHenry
In response to your scratching post: you're right about the alignment of the Sun-Earth-Moon being in a straight line. The point is that while the Earth may be in different orientations during different eclipses, its shadow is indifferent to orientation.
114 posted on
12/05/2003 8:30:50 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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