Originally Posted by Coney
I 'kin love this pic - look at it for long enough and it kind of gives you vertigo seeing earth just suspended in the void. Even though the bodies involved are massive - I've always stuggled with how gravity is so weak a force yet so effective over such immense distances!
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
Ah i remember that.
A piss poor free kick which Taylor would have easily picked up, deflected and it goes in. It counts as a goal which is the most important thing but shouldnt be counted when we talk about RVPs free kick goals
It's 'cos as small as G the gravitational constant) is, things like planets and stars are 'king massive, to use the correct terminology.
If you want a demo of how weak gravity is, pick up a small rock, or anything really. When you do that you're overcoming the gravity of an entire planet pulling the rock down.
Completely agree. At the moment he's losing the cat and mouse games with defenders. They're able to back off, and it's Walcott who is forcing himself to accelerate at them. And you always hear the shit pundits go on about how "Theo should be running at defenders"...well, no, he shouldn't be running at defenders. He should be edging up to them as long as the keep backing off and then as soon as they go in, just pelt it down the line and chase it. Apart from taking on defenders, he is getting more involved and putting in a decent ball. The goals will come - he took his chance very well against Norwich but had it cleared off the line.
@Ice Berg Kamping...
If you want a demo of how weak Letters is, see how high he can hold his head above the ground against the force of gravity.
rubbish.
That leftbck will be having nightmares for weeks
Aye, the planets may be absolutely massive, but the interplanetary distances are more massive.
Check this.
Sun-bowling ball, diameter 8.00 inches
Mercury-a pinhead, diameter 0.03 inch
Venus-a peppercorn, diameter 0.08 inch
Earth-a second peppercorn
Mars-a second pinhead
Jupiter-a chestnut or a pecan, diameter 0.90 inch
Saturn-a hazelnut or an acorn, diameter 0.70 inch
Uranus-a peanut or coffeebean, diameter 0.30 inch
Neptune-a second peanut or coffeebean
Pluto- a third pinhead
Put the Sun ball down, and march away as follows. (After the first few planets, you will want to appoint someone else to do the actual pacing-call this person the "Spacecraft" or "Pacecraft"-so that you are free to talk.)
10 paces. Call out "Mercury, where are you?" and have the Mercury-bearer put down his card and pinhead, weighting them with a pebble if necessary.
Another 9 paces. Venus puts down her peppercorn.
Another 7 paces. Earth
Already the thing seems beyond belief. Mercury is supposed to be so close to the Sun that it is merely a scorched rock, and we never see it except in the Sun's glare at dawn or dusk-yet here it is, utterly lost in space! As for the Earth, who can believe that the Sun could warm us if we are that far from it?
The correctness of the scale can be proved to skeptics (of a certain maturity) on the spot. The apparent size of the Sun ball, 26 paces away, is now the same as that of the real Sun-half a degree or arc, or half the width of your little finger held at arm's length. (If both the size of an object and its distance have been scaled down by the same factor, then the angle it subtends must remain the same.)
Another 14 paces. Mars
Now come the gasps, at the first substantially larger leap:
Another 95 paces to Jupiter
Here is the "giant planet"-but it is a chestnut, more than a city block from its nearest neighbor in space!
From now on, amazement itself cannot keep pace, as the intervals grow extravagantly:
Another 112 paces. Saturn
Another 249 paces. Uranus
Another 281 paces. Neptune
Another 242 paces. Pluto
You have marched more than half a mile! (The distance in the model adds up to 1,019 paces. A mile is 1,760 yards.)
To do this, to look back toward the Sun ball, which is no longer visible even with binoculars, and to look down at the pinhead Pluto, is to feel the terrifying wonder of space.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
They should change the name of that planet to stop that childish joke
To something like urface.
:futurama:, sort of.
There's nothing funny about saying "Jupiter Saturn Uranus - it must have hurt".They should change the name of that planet to stop that childish joke
To something like urface.
:futurama:, sort of.
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