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Old July 3rd 12, 07:28 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Dr J R Stockton[_168_]
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Default Moments of Inertia and the Shape of Continents and Landmasses on Earth


Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 08:29:53 UTC+2 schreef oriel36 het volgende:
On Jun 21, 6:51*pm, Dr J R Stockton
wrote:
In sci.astro.amateur message dacd2316-dd8a-4d24-9975-9681c04e7783@f30g2
000vbz.googlegroups.com, Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:52:09, Nico V
posted:



What really bothers me is the fact of those triangular shapes of most
of the continents and why they all have the same orientation.
Nobody could explain that yet

Try a Google search for * "continental drip" * .


That should be continental drift


No. I meant "drip". Such a search conclusively refutes "Nobody could
explain that yet". The correctness of the explanation is irrelevant.

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