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Old 03-13-2004, 09:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
FleaCircus
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Assuming the rotation of the earth could approach the speed of light, I don't think that oribital velocity would come into play. Rememer, according to Relativity, as the speed of an object increases, so does its mass.

More mass means more gravity, which raises the escape velocity.
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