Re: One for Kran!

Sena <"\"#\""@cymoeddorguk.privacy.net> wrote:

I'm trying to imagine it, but I'm failing. If he weighed 100Kg (and he
may well have done, I wouldn't know) then maybe he needs to be weighted
down because compared with billions of tons of anything he'd be very
light. But I still don't get it. The sea water is a long way from the
moon's gravitational wotsit and you say it weighs billions of tons, yes?
So how come Aldrin was able to move at all? If the moon can pull all
that mass from all that far away I'd have gooved that a mere man would
be as a feather in a vacuum.

Well, consider that this gravity which is creating the tides is the
exact same force which is keeping the moon from flying away from the
earth, and the earth from making a getaway from the sun, yet at the same
time completely fails to flatten you and me into a pancake.

Richard
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