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Larger planets have more distant horizons, but lower mountains due to higher gravity, so will you see further on bigger or smaller planets? And other than humans, animals just eat what they find, as they find it - no cooking, no washing, Why aren’t they vomiting all the time?

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Large planets have more distant horizons than small ones, but lower mountains due to higher gravity. On which would you see further?

Hillary Shaw,

Newport, Shropshire, UK

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Other than humans, animals just eat what they find, as they find it – no cooking, no washing, Why aren’t they vomiting all the time?

Robert Watson,

Jesmond, Australia

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