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Old 10-19-10, 09:51 PM   #4
tater
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In a fantasy perfect fluid (not a real body of water, that's for certain) in a thought experiment I'd wonder about surface tension when they were very close. Other than that, yeah, the gravitational attraction is so tiny that all the real life complications would make it noise (even becalmed waters have currents, fish, etc—the latter bumping into the boat would have more impact than gravitational attraction.).

Now if we were talking about spacecraft...
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