(urth) Cumaean???

[Pedro Pereira]

> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:14:45 -0600> From: jwilson at io.com> To: urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Cumaean???> > Pedro Pereira wrote:> > > I dont know either, but it seems to me that that limit would be met > > before geting so close that the atmospheres would touch (as is told in > > the Book of the Short Sun). > > Not necessarily. Being fluid, the atmosphere is subject to positive > feedback in that the tidal forces cause it to rise in a bulge, getting > closer to the primary and thus being subject to stronger tides that make > it bulge still more, etc.> > The point is moot WRT to the moon; its "atmosphere" is a remnant, > transitory puff of gas that was replaced twice over by exhaust from the > Apollo landings.
 
The point we are making with the moon is not mute because we are considering that it may be either Green or Blue (depending on the theory accepted), so we are considering two celestial bodies with atmospheres, not with the present Earth-Moon system.
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