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• #9277
It says it all, doesn't it... WAFC.
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• #9278
You are clever arent you. If I wasnt special needs at maths I might work this sort of thing out for myself.
Your answer is more concise than the Nasa people:
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=14416Assuming the suggested size is right ~4km dia., and the lunatic who made the video is right (he isn't) that it's a brown dwarf and not a comet, the mass of the object is about 1/10,000,000th that of the moon (add 1 or 2 extra 0s if it's a normal ball of dirty ice) and it's closest approach is about 100 times the distance to the moon, which makes it's gravitational pull on the earth about 1e-11 (really 1e-12 to 1e-13) times that of the moon. The pull of the moon, on the other hand, varies by about 10% between apogee and perigee.
If in doubt, do the math.
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• #9279
Remember - short sharp shock.
I prefer shock and awe myself
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• #9280
Is there anything mdcc_tester DOESN'T know?
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• #9281
how magnets work
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• #9282
Is there anything mdcc_tester can't read about on Wikipedia and pertain to know all about it?
Fixed that for you.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
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• #9283
Remember - short sharp shock.
Like ripping off a band-aid?
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• #9284
...a band-aid on my BROKEN HEART?????
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• #9285
or sticking plaster or whatever you blokes call them
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• #9286
a boo boo bandage.
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• #9287
clag
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• #9288
I had a t-Shirt many years ago which had an elastoplast box printed on the front.
It read:
E lastoplast for those nasty trips.The E was like the fila F.
#truestory
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• #9289
Fixed that for you.
You have to know which question to ask; in this case, finding the size of the object and the approximate density of different kinds of star from a google search, then combining that with a basic knowledge of Newtonian gravity gets us to an first order approximation of the answer.
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• #9290
What did you use for your model; your ego?
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• #9291
Do anyone know a really funny joke that's less than 20 words, but not too dark.
I've checked the thread and there's nothing that's quite hitting it.
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• #9292
Edscoble.
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• #9293
.....***not ***too dark.
.
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• #9294
Hadn't heard this one before:
Did you hear the joke about the gay magician?
Disappeared with a poof!
Doesn't fit the really funny need though.
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• #9295
Do anyone know a really funny joke that's less than 20 words, but not too dark.
Knock Knock
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• #9296
who's there?
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• #9297
Europe
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• #9298
Europe who?
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• #9299
No, you're a poo.
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• #9300
^nerged
Most cuntish occupation ive ever heard.