WC> WC>-> WC>I suggest a duel between us.
WC> WC>-> WC>I get to pick the location, distance and weapons.

WC> WC>-> WC>I chose Brunswick 16 pound bowling balls at 400 paces.

WC> WC>-> WC>My location: The 40th floor of the Sears Tower in Chicago.
WC> WC>-> WC>Your location, directly beneath me on the ground floor.

WC> WC>-> WC>You may fire first!

WC> WC>-> That reminds me about a science fiction short story I read
WC> WC>-> a while back.  It was a duel between two astronauts, on an
WC> WC>-> asteroid.  Naturally, the setting was on the surface of the
WC> WC>-> asteroid.  And naturally, each astronaut was throwing rocks
WC> WC>-> found on the asteroid's surface at each other.  I'll let
WC> WC>-> you figure out what happens when astronauts throw rocks at
WC> WC>-> each other while on the surface of an asteroid that has no
WC> WC>-> atmosphere...

WC> WC>Nor gravity so equal and opposite force reaction applies.
WC> WC>Thrusting backwards.

WC> LL> There is some gravity.  But not much.  In any event, think more
WC> LL> about the rock's trajectory.  What happens if a rock is thrown
WC> LL> too hard?

WC> WC>Man who shooting gun in space is a man going places.

WC> LL> Now that is what you would call going backwards...


WC>Yeah but the speed would be proportianally less than that of the
WC>bullet traveling
WC>forward as that is a function of the difference between
WC>the relative masses of the man and the bullet.
WC>Simple Neutonian physics known to all grade school graduates 
WC>for hundreds of years 

WC>Back in the dark ages of the early 1900's people were confused as
WC>thinking reaction to action reqwuired "somehing to push against",
WC>maybe even some kind of an "ether" or something to
"opush against."
WC>Bunch of ignorant savages they were :-( 

WC>Not like GED graduates like me! 
WC>I even read a book one time.

Yes, I remember the word "speed" used often often used in Physics class 
.  Both of you clowns are idiots.


Jeff

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