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Message from discussion TIME HAS INERTIA, ALTERING THE ORBIT OF VENUS AND THE TILT OF EARTH
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sometimes a Wombat  
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 More options Oct 8 1992, 5:17 am
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From: l...@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
Date: 6 Oct 92 21:16:02 GMT
Local: Tues, Oct 6 1992 5:16 pm
Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA, ALTERING THE ORBIT OF VENUS AND THE TILT OF EARTH
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ab...@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:

>   I received many anonymous telephone calls in strong and fervid support
>of my proposals: (i) TIME HAS INERTIA and the rejection of the Principles of
>Conservation of Energy and Constancy of the Speed of Light,  (ii) PUTTING
>VENUS IN AN ORBIT SIMILAR TO THE ORBIT OF THE EARTH, (iii) ALTERING THE
>TILT OF THE EARTH to avert meteorological disasters and pernicious epidemics.

I must have missed the cosmic engineering posts.  What did THEY claim?
How did they propose to DO this?  How would an NEW TILT affect
epidemics?  Does SCI.MED knwo about this?

>   The anonymity of the callers is understandable.  Association with
>radically bold and dauntless ideas is very often treated as an act of
>recusancy (recall that Copernicus, Galileo and many others were silenced
>and subject to a great deal of hardship for their bold and intrepid ideas).

So, for that matter, did hundreds of cranks.

How can an idea be daunted?

        Larry "I wear this tin-foil hat to protect myself from N-rays" Hammer
--

L...@physics.arizona.edu     \   Hidden harmony is better than
GEnie: L.HAMMER2             \  manifest.  -- Heraclitus, #47


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