if I was floating in space and there was a marble that was orbiting me at, say, five feet away - how long would it take for one orbit?
145 years.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dcp - Sep 14, 2006 7:41:45 am PDT #8034 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Sean K - Sep 14, 2006 7:44:18 am PDT #8035 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
You have to show your work, dcp.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2006 7:44:42 am PDT #8036 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Today on YouTube -- A monkey protecting a kitten from a chicken. (Or maybe it's a chicken trying to rescue a kitten from a monkey. It's hard to tell.)
bon bon - Sep 14, 2006 7:46:49 am PDT #8037 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
THe Hummer ads on TWoP's front page are cracking me up today.
tommyrot - Sep 14, 2006 8:01:26 am PDT #8038 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You have to show your work, dcp.
Let's see....
For a body in an elliptical orbit of semimajor axis a about a much more massive body of mass M the orbital period P is given by
P=(2 pi a3/2) / √(gM)
Unfortunately, I don't know what g (acceleration due to gravity, I think) would be.... oh well.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2006 8:38:17 am PDT #8039 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a guy here at work who's very patient with me, like it's all he can do to avoid blowing his stack with me.
Thing is, he's like that whether I agree with him or not. I cannot even begin to imagine how to calm him down. Sure, many of the times we disagree I'm right, and that may be annoying, but when we're in accord?
Perplexed.
Jesse - Sep 14, 2006 8:40:39 am PDT #8040 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There's a woman here who generally seems either condescending or defensive, but I'm pretty sure she only means it about half of the time. It's just her way.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 14, 2006 9:01:09 am PDT #8041 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
(Or maybe it's a chicken trying to rescue a kitten from a monkey. It's hard to tell.)
I saw that yesterday-- and it does seem like the monkey is all "my preccioussss" over the kitten.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2006 9:07:00 am PDT #8042 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's just her way.
When he says "How can I explain this without losing it?" when he's asking me to prepare a draft of a document for which he later admits I don't have the information to even start...it's more than just his way.
dcp - Sep 14, 2006 9:14:58 am PDT #8043 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
You have to show your work, dcp.
I guess I should have put in the t kidding t /kidding tags.
Okay, here's how it works out for a 100kg person and a 10 gram marble:
Period = 2 * π * (a3/2) / (G*(M1+M2))1/2
Period = 2 * π * (1.5243/2) / ((6.67259*10-11)*(100+.01))1/2 = 144707 seconds
144707 seconds = 1 day 16 hours 11 minutes 47 seconds.
edited to play with t sup and t sub tags.