Re: Enlgish Speaking group?

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In message <MPG.1f07699553d7b46498ab72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxx> writes

What's an incorrect fact?

If I were to proclaim on a Usenet group that the moon orbits the earth, about twenty posters would get over-excited and jump up and down, wetting themselves, and shouting that the earth and moon orbit each other about their common centre of mass.

It's an incorrect fact. Assuming you had an exhaustible supply of air and gramophone needles, you could spend all your life watching the earth from a convenient moon rock and nary once would the earth orbit the moon. The purveyors of incorrect facts translate a wobble into an orbit -- the more demented ones might even calculate an apogee and perigee.

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James Follett. Novelist (Callsign G1LXP)

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