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RBF Definitions

"Unlike ninety-nine point nine nine nine

Percent of all humans,

Goddard, carefully heeding the laws

Of both mass attraction and precession,

Realized that an object,

Rocket-propelled or accelerated,

Into a different velocity--

And into a different direction

To that of the Earth's

Speed and course around the Sun--

Would have its gravitational pull

Toward the Earth

Reduced fourfold

Every time it doubled

Its distance away from the Earth;

Only a hundred miles out

From our Earth's surface

The attraction would be

So diminished

That it would permit the Moon's pull

To become significant,

At which distance"

Citations

1. INTUITION, p.32 May '72