Totally Random Science Facts

[AV1611VET]

Saturn is light enough to float on water. Float! Water!

Of course, silly! It's got rings!



Nevermind --

 

[keith99]

Saturn is light enough to float on water. Float! Water!

Surprised me. Specific Gravity of 0.7. It would float pretty well (except that saturn and water cannot exist in contact).

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Surprised me. Specific Gravity of 0.7. It would float pretty well (except that saturn and water cannot exist in contact).

Can they not?

 

[Naraoia]

Can they not?

I dunno. Wouldn't most of Saturn evaporate in an environment where water can remain liquid?

 

[pgp_protector]

I dunno. Wouldn't most of Saturn evaporate in an environment where water can remain liquid?

That would have to be one massive planet to have enough water for Saturn to float on

Though I wonder what the Gravity on that planet would be like ?

 

[Naraoia]

That would have to be one massive planet to have enough water for Saturn to float on

Come on, show some imagination

 

[Chesterton]

True Fact! If you could build a rocket capable of carrying a payload consisting of every liberal Democrat politician in America, and loaded it with said payload, and fired the rocket so that it left the solar system and never returned...it would be a very fine thing.

 

[Soul Searcher]

Even finer if you could get the conservatives on there at the same time.

 

[Naraoia]

True Fact! If you could build a rocket capable of carrying a payload consisting of every liberal Democrat politician in America, and loaded it with said payload, and fired the rocket so that it left the solar system and never returned...it would be a very fine thing.

I don't think you need the "liberal Democrat" qualifier Or "in America", for that matter.

"Every politician" would be fine

Of course, if that happened, another class of incompetent/bigoted/power-hungry/corrupt politicians would spring up so quickly we wouldn't even notice the old ones were gone.

Oh wait, this is the science forum?

 

[Chesterton]

"Every politician" would be fine

Agreed.

 

[poeticlurker]

Kent Hovind calls himself 'Dr' because of ....this. If anyone can read page by page to beyond page 30, I'll be impressed. That's all I managed before giving up in despair and running out into the street screaming.

I failed. I couldn't make it past page 11.

My brain. It has broken.

 

[MorkandMindy]

Did you know that in their native environments Polar Bears did not eat Penguins

 

[Chesterton]

Did you know that in their native environments Polar Bears did not eat Penguins

It would require a very long journey for a polar bear to be able to eat a penguin.

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

It would require a very long journey for a polar bear to be able to eat a penguin.

But not as long as one might think.

 

[jacks]

The Sun is powered by gravity. If gravity doesn't power the Sun, what does? Dark matter 'ruts' wouldn't, as you describe them, create the necessary pressures.

And there's the question of black holes, n-ary stars, the fact that objects behave as if they're attracted to each other proportional to maoss and distance - and not following arbitrary grooves in space

You mean there might be a flaw in my theory!?

The sun is powered by nuclear fusion. Hydrogen is converted to helium resulting in energy and heat. The idea that gravitational pressure powers the sun would mean that the life of the sun could only be about 30 million years. It was the fact that the sun couldn't be powered long enough by the kinetic force of gravity, that lead to the idea that it might be nuclear.

There is obviously much we don't know about black holes and n-ary stars, and who said the grooves were arbitrary?

 

[Targ]

I failed. I couldn't make it past page 11.

My brain. It has broken.

Brilliant isn't it? The stylistic problems, the poor grammar and spelling, the logical fallacies, the ad hominems, the lack of substantial references ... if he'd produced that rubbish at any other university, he'd have been given an F.

 

[Blayz]

9^2 = 81
99^2 = 9801
999^2 = 998001
9999^2 = 99980001

The result of a number comprised of X 9s squared is (X-1) 9s, an 8, (X-1) 0s and a 1

This also holds true in bases other than 10 for the largest digit. In base 8:
7777^2 = 77760001

Thus in base N with X digits of N-1 the square is (X-1) "N-1"s, a single N-2, (X-1) 0s and a single 1, for N>2

 

[Wiccan_Child]

You mean there might be a flaw in my theory!?

The sun is powered by nuclear fusion. Hydrogen is converted to helium resulting in energy and heat. The idea that gravitational pressure powers the sun would mean that the life of the sun could only be about 30 million years. It was the fact that the sun couldn't be powered long enough by the kinetic force of gravity, that lead to the idea that it might be nuclear.

Gravitational pressure alone will generate heat, but it wasn't known that that heat can trigger thermonuclear fusion. The Sun's fuel is primarily Hydrogen, which it fuses under high temperatures and pressures, which are generated by *drum-roll please* high gravity. That's why Jupiter-type planets are considered 'failed stars': their gravity is insufficient to generate the heat and pressure needed to fuse Hydrogen. Further, gravity is what stops a star from blowing itself apart: they're in a state of equilibrium, with their hot, outward-pushing internal pressures balanced by its heavy, inward-pushing gravity.

There is obviously much we don't know about black holes and n-ary stars,

The point is that these phenomena are caused by gravity. No gravity, no black holes. No gravity, and n-ary star systems. If gravity doesn't exist, why are there black holes?

and who said the grooves were arbitrary?

You did: "There is no such thing as Gravity. The planets follow Dark Matter ruts around the solar system... You could use a Dark Matter "Plow" to change the orbit of small asteroids, ..."

If the planet's are all running along Dark Matter grooves like marbles on a slab of wood, there's no reason why those grooves should trace out elliptical paths. You said it yourself: those grooves can be altered.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

"Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9?" -- Dr. Egon Spengler

 

[Blayz]

C elegans worms are made up of exactly 959 or 1031 (somatic) cells, depending on the sex.