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- Subject: Re: Lunar astronaut covers earth with thumb
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.105100.2691@mdcbbs.com>
- From: rivero@mdcbbs.com (Michael Rivero)
- Date: 11 Nov 92 10:50:59 PDT
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- In article <30473@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>, wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:
- |> On the last installment of "Space Age" Jim Lovell said while he
- |> was in the vicinity of the moon, he could cover the earth with his
- |> thumb while his arm was outstretched. (It was also attributed to
- |> Rusty Schweikart).
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- |> I heard this a few years ago on a radio talk show with one of
- |> the lunar astronauts as guest--was it Jim Lovell?
- |>
- |> A caller, who had a German accent, had trouble with this reasoned:
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- |> (1) This distance to the moon from the earth is the same as the
- |> as the distance to the earth from the moon,
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- |> (2) The earth is larger than the moon, and
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- |> (3) We ordinary mortals here on earth can't cover the moon with
- |> a thumb with arm outstretched.
- |>
- |> His unstated conclusion was that the astronaut could not have done
- |> it and you could sense his reluctance to call the astronaut a liar.
- |>
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- They didn't use a naked thumb on the moon. With several layers of spacesuit
- over it, the ol' thumb does cover the Earth.
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