Thread: Moon Landing
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Old Sep 16, 2007, 12:10 am   #146 (permalink) (top)
Zeebadee
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Aside from the difference that the earth rotates 365.25 revolutions in one orbit of the sun and the moon has one revolution for every orbit of the earth... You dont see any difference? Forgive me but that is one hell of a difference.

That difference mentioned above is the only difference I was referring to when I said "the moon doesn't spin on its axis like earth does"

Does this finally put this argument to bed now?:rolleyes:
Excuse me, but what you said was:


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Relative to earth, as the earth is relative to our sun, the moon does not spin on its axis.
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The moon will not spin on an axis. It will only revolve around the earth. The moon does do a complete 360 relative to the sun but not relative to its revolution around the earth like the earth does. JUST as I said to begin with. Which of course was not wrong.
Which, of course, is wrong.

And, yes, I think this should complete this particular argument.


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