tides
Wayne Throop
> Around the latitudes most of
> the really large fossils have been found, and where most of the civilizations
> Ted quotes lived, an object would have a pull of at least 1/3 of it's
> weight toward the north.
No, no, no, no, no! Subscribe for a while to net.physics and read the
recent discussion on the physics of tides. Tides pull away from the
center of a body in orbit at the points nearest and farthest from the
primary, and don't do anything (much) at the points the same distance
from the primary as the center of mass of the body.
> My question for Ted is: How were Ultrasaurs able to stand up and walk with
> that sidesway pull?
Well, no sideways pull, so no problem. However, you are forgetting the
more significant problems of how could the pole face the primary, and
why didn't such a drastic change in FELT EFFECT :-) of gravity destroy
the earth's crust?
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