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Weight on celestial bodies

Postby Telcz » Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:54 am

This thread should have had a serious purpose, but has developed into a joking thread and other topics.
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Postby -Ocelot- » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:16 am

This is going to get locked and I'm refusing to participate in a thread that doesn't use metric.

Use metric.
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Postby New haven america » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:17 am

Don't use metric.
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Postby Bluelight-R006 » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:24 am

The Sun (28.02 G) 1625.16kg/3586.56 lb
Mercury (0.377 G) 21.866kg/48.26 lb
Venus (0.905 G) 52.49kg/115.84 lb
Earth (1 G) 58kg/128 lb
Mars (0.38 G) 22.04kg/48.64 lb
Jupiter (2.53 G) 146.74kg/323.84 lb
Saturn (1.07~ G) 62.06kg/137 lb
Uranus (0.886 G) 51.39kg/113.408 lb
Neptune (1.14 G) 66.12kg/145.92 lb
Pluto (0.06 G) 3.48kg/7.68 lb
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:32 am

These weights aren't in stones. I suppose it makes sense to use alien units.
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:54 am

New haven america wrote:Don't use metric.


How 'bout both?
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:57 am

Why does Pluto only have 1 asterisk. It should have two.

Just like other non-planets.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:58 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:Why does Pluto only have 1 asterisk. It should have two.

Just like other non-planets.


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Postby Dogmeat » Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:59 am

If anyone is wondering why the weights are so fucking weird on the gas giants, it's because the "surface" of the planet is so far away from its gravitational center.

If anyone is wondering why "surface" is in quotes, it's because they don't really have one. Which makes the "weight at the surface" measurement sort of arbitrary and made-up.
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Postby Telcz » Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:01 am

Ceres, Pluto and Eris are planets. Sorry, IAU! Actually, calling them "dwarf planets" just states they indeed are planets (such as the giant planets from Jupiter to Neptune).
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Postby Telcz » Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:04 am

Dogmeat wrote:If anyone is wondering why the weights are so fucking weird on the gas giants, it's because the "surface" of the planet is so far away from its gravitational center.

If anyone is wondering why "surface" is in quotes, it's because they don't really have one. Which makes the "weight at the surface" measurement sort of arbitrary and made-up.


Gas planets also have solid cores. But on gas planets you use the altitude at which air pressure is 1 atm, or 14.7 psi, the same as on Earth. I never wrote of a "surface" weight or gravity.
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Postby Valentine Z » Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:10 am

I was thinking if we could add in our weight on a neutron star as well.

I weighed around 57.5 kg on Earth here, so... on a neutron star?

8,050,000,000,000 kg.
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Postby Pilipinas and Malaya » Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:13 am

Telcz wrote:Ceres, Pluto and Eris are planets. Sorry, IAU! Actually, calling them "dwarf planets" just states they indeed are planets (such as the giant planets from Jupiter to Neptune).

Theoretically,its just a classification issued by the IAU to rank the celestial bodies.
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Postby -Ocelot- » Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:15 am

Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
New haven america wrote:Don't use metric.


How 'bout both?


How about we use the objectively better system only?
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Postby The Biggles Syndicate » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:09 am

Valentine Z wrote:I was thinking if we could add in our weight on a neutron star as well.

I weighed around 57.5 kg on Earth here, so... on a neutron star?

8,050,000,000,000 kg.

A teaspoon of one weighs as much as a car.

Certainly something you don't want to put in your tea.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:22 am

The Biggles Syndicate wrote:
Valentine Z wrote:I was thinking if we could add in our weight on a neutron star as well.

I weighed around 57.5 kg on Earth here, so... on a neutron star?

8,050,000,000,000 kg.

A teaspoon of one weighs as much as a car.

Certainly something you don't want to put in your tea.


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Postby Ifreann » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:26 am

As a figment of NSG's imagination, I don't have mass.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:33 am

Ifreann wrote:As a figment of NSG's imagination, I don't have mass.


Are you sure? You carry a lot of weight around here.
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Postby Ifreann » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:36 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:As a figment of NSG's imagination, I don't have mass.


Are you sure? You carry a lot of weight around here.

Well, after Christmas, who isn't?
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Postby Telcz » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:43 am

-Ocelot- wrote:
How about we use the objectively better system only?


The objectively "better" system is the only true one: Imperial units. The totalitarian metric units are an invention, they are artificial and shouldn't be used by science.
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Postby Ifreann » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:44 am

Telcz wrote:
-Ocelot- wrote:
How about we use the objectively better system only?


The objectively "better" system is the only true one: Imperial units. The totalitarian metric units are an invention, they are artificial and shouldn't be used by science.

Science shouldn't use artificial things, like numbers, or words.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:44 am

Telcz wrote:
-Ocelot- wrote:
How about we use the objectively better system only?


The objectively "better" system is the only true one: Imperial units. The totalitarian metric units are an invention, they are artificial and shouldn't be used by science.


The only thing that is better in the imperial system is their March.
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Postby Bluelight-R006 » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:48 am

Telcz wrote:
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How about we use the objectively better system only?


The objectively "better" system is the only true one: Imperial units. The totalitarian metric units are an invention, they are artificial and shouldn't be used by science.

Wdym artificial? The imperial units were artificial too... used by feets that had different sizes. Meanwhile the metric is based on something definite.
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Postby The New California Republic » Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:55 am

Telcz wrote:
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How about we use the objectively better system only?


The objectively "better" system is the only true one: Imperial units. The totalitarian metric units are an invention, they are artificial and shouldn't be used by science.

And where, pray tell, did Imperial units come from if they weren't invented by humans? Aliens? :roll:
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Postby Telcz » Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:13 am

Ifreann wrote:Science shouldn't use artificial things, like numbers, or words.


Those aren't artificial. As a matter of fact, some words are. But that is not unscientific.
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