To: HeadOn
"I don’t know about “habitable”, though. I’d weigh 1000 lbs! "Then you must weight 450lbs here. LOL! A 200lb person would weight 444lbs on that planet, so the planet's not habitable. The story's poorly written, but the weight factor is 5/1.52=2.2.
47 posted on
04/24/2007 2:30:19 PM PDT by
spunkets
("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
To: spunkets
The story's poorly written, but the weight factor is 5/1.52=2.2. I don't think that's quite right. Your equation supposes that the mass is all at a singular point and that you are suspended/supported on a massless sphere 1.5 earth radii away. To figure it out precisely, you may need to include rotation speed as well (depending upon whether it is fast enough to be significant).
52 posted on
04/24/2007 2:41:53 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: spunkets
What’s the formula (see some of the previous questions)?
112 posted on
04/25/2007 12:35:07 AM PDT by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: spunkets
The toll on the human body has got to be more than simply weighing more. A 100 lb person weighing 220 lb could still walk around, but it would seem that all the weight bearing joints would be under far more stress and would deteriorate much more quickly.
127 posted on
04/25/2007 5:08:25 AM PDT by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: spunkets
"I don’t know about “habitable”, though. I’d weigh 1000 lbs! " Then you must weight 450lbs here. LOL! A 200lb person would weight 444lbs on that planet, so the planet's not habitable. The story's poorly written, but the weight factor is 5/1.52=2.2.Not by us, but it is the closest thing we've found, so far.
134 posted on
04/25/2007 5:38:33 AM PDT by
jmcenanly
(Cowards take hostages. We do not.)
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