So … how fast does a satellite have to be travelling in order to be in a stable orbit around a human?
Brian Thompson has made a nice living playing dirtbags.
{Sick because pediatricians have you and your child wait for a well-visit in a room with sick children}[ul][]Nice that Shran still is off-balance due to his antenna.[]Pretty big Aenar city for a group that’s a few thousand and is only known by a handful of Andorians.[]Archer should have worn a snowsuit and a helmet or face mask for such low temperatures.[]So Caleb (Big Brother Aenar) is told all Aeners were killed so, “Come join the Romulans and kill everything.” Yeah, right. And ya think he could drop their precious rule and just read the Romulans thoughts and find the truth?[]Using T’Pol or Jhamel to disrupt the shroud ship’s control is how they phrased it at first, but didn’t I later hear them talking about making the ship turn or somesuch? That would have required pilot trining. While T’Pol would have some, I doubt Jhamel does.[]Trip runs away too much. If they had a relationship, did he think it would be easier?[/ul]{Too fuzzy to think further}
That’s one for the engineers.
Got a transmission going out tomorrow. They know what I’m talking about.
Depends on the horse.
suddenly, I have an image in my head of a stallion in diapers…
F= m1*m2/D EXP2
The rest is…well, the rest is trivial. Calculate it for yourselves.
There will be a test on Tuesday.
Motherfucking hell. I just read that Sirtis and Frakes are confirmed for the finale.
GAH! I HATE BERMAGA!
Maybe they’ll play Sylvia and Korob?
(hint: TOS ep 30)
I was about to write “maybe they’ll die horribly”
Oh wait…I just did
Sylvia and Korob died horribly.
I mean, it was COMPLETELY unbelieveable. :rolleyes:
Or, did you mean something different?
&**%#$!)(!! I was holding out hope that it was just a filthy stinking rumor!
AAAAAAARRRGHH!
StableBoy, you are so bad.
And so am I.
“She was only the stableman’s daughter
But all the horsemen knew her.”
Manure.
Crap on the finale.
Here lies the body of Anna Marie
Died at the age of 103
For 15 years she kept her virginity
Not a bad record for this vicinity
Oh, very well. Sheesh, I’ve gotta do everything myself around here.
Okay. We want to know how fast a satellite would have to be travelling to be in a stable orbit around a human being.
Let’s assume that the human being is a rather husky adult male weighing in at one hundred kilograms, and that we’d like the orbit to be a circular orbit at a distance of ten meters from the center of mass of the human. At that distance, we can pretty much neglect the shape of the human and assume that all of his mass is concentrated at a point at his center of mass.
As we know from basic rotational dynamics, the centripetal acceleration required to keep a satellite moving in a circular path is v^2/r, where v is the (linear) velocity of the satellite and r is the radius of the circle. We also know, from the Plant’s equation quoted above, that the acceleration due to gravity of a satellite is MG/r^2, where M is the mass of the thing being orbited and G is the Newtonian Gravitational constant. (We’ll assume the mass of the satellite is negligible when compared with the mass of the human, otherwise the center of mass of the two-body system will be different than the human’s center of mass and the equations will get a lot messier*.) As stated in the paragraph above, M = 100kg, and r = 10m. G, according to my handy-dandy physics textbook, is 6.672 x 10^-11 N m^2/kg^2.
So, we need to determine what value for v will provide exactly as much centripetal acceleration as the acceleration due to gravity. That requires that v^2/r = MG/r^2. Multiplying both sides by r and then taking the square root of both sides, we find that v = SQRT(MG/r). If we plug in the numbers given in the paragraph above, we find that v = 2.583 x 10^-5 m/s, or about 9.3 centimeters per hour.
This is roughly Warp 0.00004415 on the TOS scale.
*) That’s “messier” as in more messy, not the guy who numbered all the nebulae.
Convert it to Klingon.
The bee–he is a busy soul
he has no time for birth control
And that is why
in times like these
There are so many sons of bees.
Speaking of sons of B’s:
Bergama x blank computer screen = fecking finale
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Executives thought they could wreck
This sci-fi franchise called Trek
They cut off the cash
And pulled scripts out their ass
All while talking out the sides of their neck
What really blows now is that Utterly Pathetic Network is running promos saying “These are their FINAL voyages!”
Rub it in, why don’t they?
What, you want it in Kellicams per hour or something?
I want everything in Quatloos.