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Old 01-April-2002, 10:54 PM
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On 2002-04-01 16:30, Gary Redmond wrote:
1) Ice-skater example.
An Ice-skater eats their "Wheaties" (external) that supplies the electricity, to cause thought, to control, and nourish muscle.
General Mills is an external force?

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If you let the x's, the y, and the z represent Earth, and the o the Moon. You will find that gravitational force between y and o can not affect the force between y and z. Inversely the force on z by o will not affect y.
That much is true, but...

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If the parallelogram xyxz were to rotate it would need to be due to something other than o.
That is not. o does cause a torque on the other figure. That is easy to calculate.

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Last night I posted a message here. This morning I found every one angry at me. It has been my experience that 90% of all anger, comes from fear. What are you guys afraid of? I don't want your jobs I have grandchildren to raise. I have asked several times that you do the math.
I did.

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It looks to me as if only one person has tried the math. They (dapted Posted: 2002-03-29 01:50) came up with 1.5 million years which BTW is wrong and you may remember I suggested a slight correction.
The way I remember it, not only did I also do the math, I corrected dapted's. You can look it up. I even showed my work.

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Could someone (with credentials) please get out a chalkboard and tell us if that is correct?
I have an MS in math, I'm ABD in Geophysics, specializing in the shape of the earth. But credentials aren't important.

Because I have done the math.