What happens when....
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@tig said:
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Note: if you were agile enough... on the first 'fall', just as you approached the other end and slowed to a standstill you could 'grapple' onto the tunnel's wall just below the rim, so with a little climbing 'up' you could pop out at the other end... but I suspect you'd be a bit knackered by then [if not dead] !!!
There must be easier way to get to Oz
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@mike lucey said:
@tig said:
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Note: if you were agile enough... on the first 'fall', just as you approached the other end and slowed to a standstill you could 'grapple' onto the tunnel's wall just below the rim, so with a little climbing 'up' you could pop out at the other end... but I suspect you'd be a bit knackered by then [if not dead] !!!
There must be easier way to get to Oz
Well it'd be better than flying 'Ryan Air' - where you'd fit in the seats better if you had both legs amputated and have to pay to use the loo
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There was talk of it - just one loo per plane [so extra seats] and changing £1 to use it - but I'm not sure that they ever implemented it fully...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048198/Ryanair-toilet-aircraft-plan-make-room-seats.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1263905/Ryanair-toilet-charges-phased-in.html
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I understand that they do not supply (free) beverages and food and I would even support this on other flights to keep costs lower but charging for the loo is too much. And one loo per plane? What if someone has constipation (or diarrhea)?
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Completely OT...but funny anyway.
[flash=640,390:1uc64bm6]http://www.youtube.com/v/ZAg0lUYHHFc?version=3[/flash:1uc64bm6]
So back on-topic; ponder what would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared.
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Oooh, good one!
Tides would stop?
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That would be just the start of our problems. It exerts a gyroscopic stabilizing effect.
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Well, I'd imagine the missing stabilizing effect would cause our orbit to shift, maybe even lose orbit completely. This could mean our rotation is affected which affects everything. Having no tides has a huge wildlife impact.
You've just wiped us out Alan....well done
It's an interesting one though as I scurry off to google the answer
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@tig said:
If you were to go 'off-center' so as to link specific places, then you'll start to 'scrape' down the walls of the tunnel as you fall further in, as the Earth's center of gravity will exert an uneven pull off to the side nearest the 'core'.
... and don't forget about conservation of angular momentum.
If the tunnel is not collinear with Earth axis of rotation, any object falling through the tunnel will be inevitably pushed against wall of the tunnel.
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Assuming that we are not falling through solid air...
The air pressure should be around 1.88*10^11 bar, that is either super critical or solid, I couldn't figure that out:
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@mike lucey said:
@tig said:
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Note: if you were agile enough... on the first 'fall', just as you approached the other end and slowed to a standstill you could 'grapple' onto the tunnel's wall just below the rim, so with a little climbing 'up' you could pop out at the other end... but I suspect you'd be a bit knackered by then [if not dead] !!!
There must be easier way to get to Oz
Go via Indonesia, guys. There is a huge industry of smugglers taking thousands of refugees from the Middle East to Asia and put them on rickety old boat and send them our way..... they get intercepted by Border Control and sent to Christmas Island [detention Centre] for processing [which by the way costs the Australian tax payer millions each year!] and in time they get bought in the back door.....
The previous government had the right idea but when this bloody Labor government came to power they relaxed the policy and HELLO!!!, the boats came a sailin....
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Everytime I see you talk about Oz politics I'm reminded of this...
[flash=600,450:27axgr11]http://www.youtube.com/v/aFV2QYsw9yo[/flash:27axgr11]
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How long would it actually take an object to get through? Shouldn't the trajectory be bent a little if you take in account the gravitational force of the moon? If there was a solar eclipse on the other end of the hole, would that be enough to get you through? If one end is in an ocean and the other on land, wouldn't that make a one heck of a whirlpool and a geyser?
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@aerilius said:
Assuming that we are not falling through solid air...
The air pressure should be around 1.88*10^11 bar, that is either super critical or solid, I couldn't figure that out:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=phase+diagram+of+airapparently this is a frictionless medium (considering the speed with which Rich dismissed my answer
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Your in my world now where trivial matters like fact are dismissed.
What happens when you try to locate the position of the colour grey in 3D space? Is white at 0,0,0?
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grey is a line extending from white to black. 1,1,1; 2,2,2; 3,3,3; etc.
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Black would be 0,0,0; white would be 255,255,255.
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@unknownuser said:
What happens when you try to locate the position of the colour grey in 3D space?
The TREMULATION (as prophetised)?
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@andybot said:
grey is a line extending from white to black. 1,1,1; 2,2,2; 3,3,3; etc.
Your viewing colour as a hue, which is something we use to visualise variation.
@alan fraser said:
Black would be 0,0,0; white would be 255,255,255.
Your taking the piss but that's expected since this thread is turning into an episode of QI. where's my moon answer?
@chrisglasier said:
The TREMULATION (as prophetised)?
Your wasting my time as much as I'm wasting yours. You should give this a go....
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