J.C.MacSwell

Reminds me of the kid with the slide rule: "2 X 3 is 5.9...looking closely...5.99...what the heck, let's call it 6!"

LOL, that line is classic!

The green arrows represent a vertical force if and only if there is an equal and opposite force to offset it. The reaction shows a torque or moment but if that point was fixed there would be a reactionary force there as well. If it is free to move at that point, that point will accelerate downward due to this equal and opposite force that is not shown. There will be no net lift. The thing might be able to jump, but it will never hover.

Because the computer is program is not consistent with physical law. Otherwise it can only be present while in contact with the ground or" jump" as YT points out.

Everything else makes sense if you got that part wrong, the bolded part, somehow. (The wind direction is the direction the wind is coming from, just in case that might be the error)

Now, paint this thing black and add some sun to this thing.

It makes it much more spectacular, amazing and cool, because without it, we all could do it, and more, in no time at all.

I agree, a magnetic orbit would be unstable. The inverse squared gravitational field is what "makes the world go 'round".

Add that the reason many smaller moons are not round is because due to their smaller size they are strong enough to resist the lesser forces that are involved that would otherwise force them into a round shape. So it depends on there mass and their make up and time. The moon is also probably very (very, very) slightly egg shaped, with the pointy end pointing toward Earth, as the tidal forces would be strongest there, and the gradient of the tidal forces slightly higher than on the opposite side where the tidal forces are weakest.

Pascal assumes it's a 50/50, and therefore nothing to lose and infinite heaven to gain. You don't just throw that away if it drops to a 1 in 6 chance that you could be right. (assuming God/No God remains 50/50). Unless you fear "extra" eternal damnation for taking that chance.

God rewards belief Richard Dawkins[19] suggests that the wager does not account for the possibility that there is a god that rewards honest attempted reasoning and indeed might punish blind or feigned faith. Richard Carrier expands this argument as such: “ Suppose there is a God who is watching us and choosing which souls of the deceased to bring to heaven, and this god really does want only the morally good to populate heaven. He will probably select from only those who made a significant and responsible effort to discover the truth. For all others are untrustworthy, being cognitively or morally inferior, or both. They will also be less likely ever to discover and commit to true beliefs about right and wrong. That is, if they have a significant and trustworthy concern for doing right and avoiding wrong, it follows necessarily that they must have a significant and trustworthy concern for knowing right and wrong. Since this knowledge requires knowledge about many fundamental facts of the universe (such as whether there is a god), it follows necessarily that such people must have a significant and trustworthy concern for always seeking out, testing, and confirming that their beliefs about such things are probably correct. Therefore, only such people can be sufficiently moral and trustworthy to deserve a place in heaven — unless god wishes to fill heaven with the morally lazy, irresponsible, or untrustworthy"

Hmm...wonder if anyone yet has been conceived in space?

Not likely. With all these black cars it will likely evaporate.

Going by the article it sounds like he was certainly at fault, at least partially. I just don't see how it is criminal, if he succumbed to panic. Praying may have been his attempt to control his panic.

When I was a kid and first heard of the big bang, I thought of this. In mine during the collapse everything was reversed, and you lived your life backwards. You couldn't tell which phase you were currently in.

So if he did to 1 & 2 thoroughly and with due diligence and unexpectedly succumbed to panic anyway, then he should be out free, correct?

Well when I said object I meant a Black Hole orbited by a piece of tarpaulin. It was an "object" to us.

Not much of a cheese shop, here at SFN.

Cue the four Yorkshiremen from Monty Python: "U'm amazed it's cooled as much as it 'as. Thought it would be tough living with all the heat." "Never thought it would 'ave cooled enough to have evolved as far as we 'ave. Thought it would 'ave been still too bloody hot." "Didn't 'spect to even start evolving at all...yet"...Not even an amoeba would try to survive at the temperature I expected it would be." "What I meant by "living" was more like a pre-amoeba stage. I thought I might be that, perhaps living out on some trans Neptunian object. I certainly didn't 'spect to be evolving anywhere close to Earth." "I expected to be singed to death on my trans Neptunian object...'alf an 'our before I even tried to form some DNA."...

This is a Science Forum. It has long been proven that it is made of cheese. Now given enough cheese in one place in space and it will tend toward round due to gravity. Not enough cheese and it stays in a nice tasty wedge shape.

1. Solar radiation 2. Radioactive decay 3. Initial Heat lost at current rate Not sure if I have them in the right order for the present conditions.

inertia

The flow would be increasing at that point. It cannot instantaneously adjust to match any change in pressure. Force is proportional to acceleration, not velocity.

Isn't the period constant for an ideal pendulum?

That should be correct, for the tension. The flow would lag somewhat behind. But that doesn't change the fact that there is no horizontal component adding to the tension at that point in the swing. The tension is all vertical at that point.The tension at that point is greatest there because the centripetal acceleration is greatest at that point.