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I should probably try to solve the problem myself, it'll help as prep for my
college entrance exam. ;-)
In lugnet.space, Jeff Jardine writes:
> If we plug in 3.8e08m for R, and 6e24kg for the mass of the earth, we get a
> time ~ 3.5 days (ignoring the radii of the earth and moon, and the motion
> of the earth toward the moon).
Hmm, not bad at all - that gives people time enough to *realize* it's
happening, broadcast it all over the world, and let everyone go completely
bananas. Fun!
(Although honestly, I *would* like to know the wrold was coming to its end a
few days early, to go see old friends and family, etc...)
-Shiri
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| (...) Am I evil or annoying, Shiri? I am simply wanting to know and I want to know if you have built any LEGO sets of your own in your spare time. (We are evil! In-deed! Kaientai, WWF) Jesse Long (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Actually, when calculating the acceleration and taking the distance into account, it's not so bad. For my first attempt at solving this, I tried converting gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy. The resulting integral was (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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