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To: Lurking Libertarian

Again, gravity is what hurls the Moon away from the Earth. Not all things subject to gravity actually fall, some spring upward. Isn't science wonderful.


577 posted on 09/20/2005 4:02:38 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Again, gravity is what hurls the Moon away from the Earth.

That would be momentum.

584 posted on 09/20/2005 4:11:16 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Again, gravity is what hurls the Moon away from the Earth. Not all things subject to gravity actually fall, some spring upward.

Which is why there is an hour more moonlight during midnight savings time. "Spring upward, fall downward" is just the way we remember how it works.

641 posted on 09/20/2005 6:20:45 PM PDT by Gumlegs
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