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Twelve-inch Steel World Globe:
"of a paper match, gives you 100 miles. So if you glue just a little paper match on to a twelve-inch globe, that’s the altitude at which it goes into orbit. In other words its just presumably almost still in the print of that globe. In other words, then, almost no distance at all when the other bodies take over. And at this point we say it goes into orbit. Instead of trying to fall in, it now goes off in orbit at 90 degrees. Now this is very strange because 180 degrees is what we had with the falling-in, it now goes off in orbit at 90 degrees. Now this is very strange because 180 degrees is what we had with the falling-in and now suddenly it’s going at 90 degrees-- going around. The effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion is what we call precession. And precession is to affect them at angles other than-- they do not tend to at 180 degrees of faling-m-- but to operate at angles tangent, sometimes 90-degreeness, sometimes maybe at other angles, but primarily in the 90-degree range. Okay?
“if you think about the dimension that I’ve just given you in relation to our tiny little Earth, and to think about the distance to our own Sun, 92 million miles, or the next nearest”
