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Old 28th Dec 2004, 13:37
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Onan the Clumsy

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What about the position of the moon (and the sun)?

Albeit 50,000' is well below the LaGrange point, the moon, if directly overhead, would offset some of the gravitational loss due to the increased distance of Cpt Lofty from the mass of the Earth
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