tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post5614573887299983309..comments2024-03-27T11:42:47.601-04:00Comments on Another Monkey: Bad Astronomy, NBC styleD.B. Echohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-40800310552301531252007-04-28T09:59:00.000-04:002007-04-28T09:59:00.000-04:00LOL. Yeah, these aliens have us cold ... unless th...LOL. Yeah, these aliens have us cold ... unless they are very small. What if they only weigh 30-60 pounds each? Then we could keep them as very strong pets. Let's hope they mistook our size in their invasion plans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-50492288510451418632007-04-28T09:27:00.000-04:002007-04-28T09:27:00.000-04:00It's certainly not an inviting vacation spot. You...It's certainly not an inviting vacation spot. You could, theoretically, walk around while carrying your own body weight on your shoulders, but the problem would be that every part of you would be 2.2 times heavier, including all your internal body fluids. Your blood would pool in your lower extremities; if your heart didn't fail while trying to drag it back up through your veins, you would still have wicked edemas unless you wore a pressure suit to force the blood and fluids back up. If you stood on your head you would probably have a good chance of having an aneurysm. Your bladder...yeah, don't go there.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, any aliens there that picked up our early radio and TV broadcasts and are now well on their way to invade our planet will have an easy time of things once they get here, hopping around at half their weight at home. Our only hope to escape certain enslavement and/or extermination would be that their own version of muscular atrophy will kick in and be their undoing. Let's hope they failed to take that into account in their invasion plan!<BR/><BR/>Word verification word: mrznnjm. Perhaps the leader of the invasion force will be led by a Mr. Znnjm.D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-83896578734494842962007-04-27T12:21:00.000-04:002007-04-27T12:21:00.000-04:00Thanks for the calcs. So it would be like me carry...Thanks for the calcs. <BR/><BR/>So it would be like me carrying around a 300-sack of concrete? In other words, we'd all be immobilized.<BR/><BR/>Bill @ BNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-62358038345233474122007-04-26T20:36:00.000-04:002007-04-26T20:36:00.000-04:00Actually, that last line is just something that oc...Actually, that last line is just something that occurred to me while watching daytime TV a few years ago. Regis, The View, Jerry Springer - they all seem to be pandering to a dumb demographic AND actively making them dumber.<BR/><BR/>I just looked up the data on a reliable source (Phil Plait's site) and it says that the planet is supposed to have 1.5 times Earth's radius. The formula for determining the weight of an object on a planet's surface (I think; like an idiot, I haven't looked any of this stuff up) is (GmM)/(r squared) where G is the universal gravitational constant, m is the mass of the object, M is the mass of the planet, and r is the distance between the two centers of mass - the radius of the planet, plus a few feet. So to determine a ratio of the gravitational force on the surface of one planet compared to another, we can divide (GmM)/(r squared)for one planet by (GmM)/(r squared) for the other. G and m (the mass of the object being weighed on both planets) will cancel out, since they're the same in both equations, and we will make things easy by calling the mass of the Earth 1 (so the mass of the new planet is 5) and the radius of the Earth 1 (so the radius of the new planet is 1.5). So our equation boils down to ((M/r squared))/(1/1) = (5/((1.5)*(1.5)))/1 = 5/2.25 = 2.222... So, assuming I didn't screw this up somewhere, you actually will weigh only a little more than twice what you do on Earth on the surface of this planet. Which seems weird.<BR/><BR/>...but Phil confirms it!<BR/><BR/>"The surface gravity is more than twice that of Earth’s (22 m/s/s versus 9.8 m/s/s on Earth)..."D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-29233405324233167322007-04-26T12:06:00.000-04:002007-04-26T12:06:00.000-04:00So does TV make people stupid, or do stupid people...<I>So does TV make people stupid, or do stupid people simply determine what's on TV?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes and yes. It's a feedback loop.<BR/><BR/>My question was this: This planet supposedly has five times the mass of earth. Wouldn't that make the planet uninhabitable (or very difficult to inhabit) for us, even if the atmosphere were perfect for us? <BR/><BR/>And at five times the mass, how heavy would that make us on the planet. Would I weight 1,250 pounds, for example? <BR/><BR/>Bill @ BNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-45008578256492912832007-04-25T23:58:00.000-04:002007-04-25T23:58:00.000-04:00"So does TV make people stupid, or do stupid peopl..."So does TV make people stupid, or do stupid people simply determine what's on TV?"<BR/><BR/>The second one, most definitely!whimsical brainpanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158339502955458999noreply@blogger.com