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In lugnet.space, Jason J. Railton writes:
> In lugnet.space, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> > In lugnet.space, Jeff Jardine writes:
> > > In lugnet.space, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> > > > If we ignore the gravitational damage to the earth
> > > > (tides, crust stresses, etc) and the fact that the earth is still
> > > > rotating, how long would you get to watch the moon before it landed
> > > > on you? The first person to answer will get a cookie(*)!
> > > >
> > > > (*) DISCLAIMER: cookie offer will not be honoured.
> > >
> > >
> > > I get 3.5 days, ignoring the motion of the earth toward the moon.
> > > Don't worry about the cookie - LUGNET provides free cookies for us all. :)
> >
> > Holy cow, it's that long?! Man, cool or not, forget that..., too long!
> > Call me when the moon's an hour away. Now *that* would look cool, if
> > it was the first time you'd looked up in a few days.
> >
> > Plus, the apparent gravity on the earth's surface in between them
> > would have dropped, and people would be setting all kinds of new
> > Olympic records :]
> >
> > KDJ
> > _______________________________________
> > LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
>
> I never spotted this before, but it's further proof that there's negligible
> friction in space. If there was, the Moon would have slowed down in it's
> orbit and fallen to Earth, and the Earth would slow down and fall into the sun.
>
> Actually, I seem to remember that the moon's pull on the tides is mutual
> (the moon is affected by the gravity of water on the Earth), and because
> tidal waters drag across the surface (thus slowed by friction), this is
> gradually decelerating the moon's orbit. So, it's orbit is very slowly
> shrinking...
>
> Jason J Railton
I have two questions to ask now because of the replies to this bulletin
board message I sent in response to many other messages on the Lugnet Space
bulletin board room. The first question is for Kyle D. Jackson and Jeff
Jardine and it is if we did not ignore the motion of the earth towards the
moon, then how long would it take for a person to watch the moon before it
landed on a person? (Have these people played The Legend of Zelda:
Majora's Mask one too many times in their lives?) The second question is
with a decreasing and more negligable friction and an always decreasing
amount of gravity in outer space, would space craft have the ability to
travel to places faster or slower than conventional aircraft on the planet
Earth? Thank you for answering my questions and the more questions a person
asks about the world, the more the person knows about the world.
Jesse Long
P.S. The people who do not know what The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is
about, please go to http://www.nintendo.com and you will find every part of
information that you can about this video game.
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