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Old May 30th, 2003, 10:32 PM
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Default Re: Atmosphere

There are some gravitational shear forces. The question then becomes how strong they are, and what distances are involved, to determine how much stress they will cause. In most all cases humans are familiar with, such shear forces are too small to cause an effect, but there are some differential gravity effects we are familiar with, such as from the moon, its obvious effects (tides) and some more subtle ones.

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