Article: <5fpeps$kfj@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: LONG ELLIPSE ORBITS
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:12:44 GMT
In article <5fn5d2$6hb@pollux.cmc.ec.gc.ca> Greg Neill
writes:
>>>> Look to your Olympic decathlon games,
>>>> ZetaTalk[TM])
>
>>> That is true for the horizontal motion of the disk.
>>> ynecgan@cmc.doe.ca (Greg Neill)
>
>> (Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
>> You're claiming that the long ellipse comet, when
leaving
>> the sun and going into the long stretch, will retain in
>> memory the curve is had and continue to play out this
>> curve while far out in space - FOR NO REASON.
>
> Nope. It has no memory, only the inverse square
gravitiational
> force acting. ... The discus does indeed follow a conic
section
> orbit w.r.t. the ground, for down is the direction of the
> gravitational force that is operating. ... it will be seen
to
> follow a nice parabolic arc (with allowances for air
resistance). So
> there's your curve.
> ynecgan@cmc.doe.ca (Greg Neill)
You're admitting that the curve is not retained for the HORIZONTAL motion of the decathlon disc, but claim that it is retained for the VERTICAL motion of the disc. Huh! The reason the vertical goes up and then down is because it's directly parallel to the surface of the Earth, with an even gravitational tug to its SIDE. A comet heading out of the Soar System has the Sun to its BACK. What influence, way out in space, does it have then to make a sideways motion?