Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Veggie

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Originally posted by Discrate
You are right i forgot to add something into it, ill say it again and correct it.

Did everyone know that if the earth moves 1 half of a  millimeter of its coarse that  the gravity would screw up and would not be able to stay on the ground.

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You do know that gravity is caused by large mass? i would like to see some proof that moving the earth by .5mm will effect gravity

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lmao, if you really saw that bit I highlighted on the Discovery channel, I will go to the "scientists" (read "noobs") and slap them about.

I'm in 6th year (ie, 16) and could tell you that gravity is caused by the size of the object. Everything "has" gravity. Since the Earth is big, we see its effects a lot more. Since the Sun is bigger, Earth orbits it.

It's not like some force that appears on the surface of the planet which you can move.

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For those who care, the size of a "Gravity" (thats really bad wording) is properly known as the "Gravitational Field Strength", which is either measured in Newtons per Kilogram (how much force is applied per kilogram of mass) or simply meters per second squared (how fast an object accelerates towards the gravitational center).
On Earth (at sea-level), the gravitational field strength is 9.81 N/kg or m/s/s. So this means if you fall for 1 second, after that one second you will be travelling at 9.81m/s.

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I think while the M.A.D. idea (mutally assured destruction - "you blow us to shit, we blow you to shit") still exists, we're not going to go firing nukes at each other.

This is also why I think a ban is a bad idea. If the USA and UK aren't allowed to have nukes, and all of a sudden Mr. Terrorist from God-Knows-Where finds some weapons-grade Uranium lying around, when he decides to blow us to shit, we have nothing to blow him to shit with.
Although, I suppose with some terrorists, us blowing them back up won't really bother them.  But then again, I doubt they'd want Terrorist Junior or that to die...

So yeah, threat of nukes = a good thing. Nukes going off = really, really bad.