throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) (09/10/86)
> jsf@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Fritzinger) > Around the latitudes most of > the really large fossils have been found, and where most of the civilizations > Ted quotes lived, an object would have a pull of at least 1/3 of it's > weight toward the north. No, no, no, no, no! Subscribe for a while to net.physics and read the recent discussion on the physics of tides. Tides pull away from the center of a body in orbit at the points nearest and farthest from the primary, and don't do anything (much) at the points the same distance from the primary as the center of mass of the body. > My question for Ted is: How were Ultrasaurs able to stand up and walk with > that sidesway pull? Well, no sideways pull, so no problem. However, you are forgetting the more significant problems of how could the pole face the primary, and why didn't such a drastic change in FELT EFFECT :-) of gravity destroy the earth's crust? -- You find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets into the open and has other people looking at it. --- A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh. -- Wayne Throop <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw