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Old August 24th 03, 05:19 AM
Joann Evans
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Default A new planet?

Peter Fairbrother wrote:

Suppose you joined Mars and Venus together with a big elastic band?

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Peter Fairbrother


It breaks.

Or if infinitely elastic, sooner or later, it will be stretched close
to/into the Sun. *Then* it breaks.

And that's ignoring what the rotations and atmospheres of both
worlds, are doing to this thing.

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