Groucho's Fact Hunt

[degsy]

Surely in zero gravity it would just fly off in to space? Must need gravity to circle the moon?

Escape velocity for the moon is 7808 ft/s...a lot faster than your standard bullet @ 2500 ft/s - 1700mph

 

[Brendan Janus]

Cooking bacon slowly, on a low pan heat, makes it less salty !!

 

[WA Toffee]

Surely in zero gravity it would just fly off in to space? Must need gravity to circle the moon?

Yep, silly me. Just forget I posted that

 

[SiEdmo]

less gravity up a mountain (it's further distance from Earth's centre of gravity). Similarly, you weigh less up a mountain than at sea level

surprised more boxers don't fight in mexico city, easier weight cut haha

 

[Methuselah]

It is now 53 games since Leeds United were awarded a penalty.

 

[larbert toffee]

Cooking bacon slowly, on a low pan heat, makes it less salty !!

I'm taking that with a pinch of wotsit.

 

[deipnosophist]

There is a teeny bit I. The moon. Or else Buzz would still be floating.

about 1/6ths of Earth's.
On Earth, for a bloke with mass 100kg, the force he exerts on a weighing scale is 100kg x 9.8m/s/s (ie mass x acceleration due to gravity) = 980Newtons. The scale then translates/scales this force into weight...100kg.
On the moon, the same bloke exerts 100kg*1.5m/s/s =150 Newtons. The scales calibration would then message a lower 'weight'...but of course weight is not really a physics concept - mass is. One's mass doesn't change on the moon...only the pressure exerted on the scales.
In short, you have to recalibrate earth-set scales to read mass correctly on the moon.

 

[marnie]

about 1/6ths of Earth's.
On Earth, for a bloke with mass 100kg, the force he exerts on a weighing scale is 100kg x 9.8m/s/s (ie mass x acceleration due to gravity) = 980Newtons. The scale then translates/scales this force into weight...100kg.
On the moon, the same bloke exerts 100kg*1.5m/s/s =150 Newtons. The scales calibration would then message a lower 'weight'...but of course weight is not really a physics concept - mass is. One's mass doesn't change on the moon...only the pressure exerted on the scales.
In short, you have to recalibrate earth-set scales to read mass correctly on the moon.

Took the words out of my mouth.

 

[Alan Whittle]

It is now 53 games since Leeds United were awarded a penalty.

It is now 53 minutes since Palace were awarded a penalty. #downwithwilf.

 

[Brendan Janus]

I'm taking that with a pinch of wotsit.

They would have to be bacon Wotsits !

 

[summerisle]

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

 

[deipnosophist]

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

the best way to sum a series of consecutive numbers is simply to add the lowest number to the highest, multiply by the total number of items in the series and then divide by two.
A roulette wheel has 38 slots but two are 0 and 00: so effectively 36 slots numbered 1-36. 36+1=37. there are 36 numbers in the series so 37x36=1332. 1332 divided by 2 =666.

 

[summerisle]

the best way to sum a series of consecutive numbers is simply to add the lowest number to the highest, multiply by the total number of items in the series and then divide by two.
A roulette wheel has 38 slots but two are 0 and 00: so effectively 36 slots numbered 1-36. 36+1=37. there are 36 numbers in the series so 37x36=1332. 1332 divided by 2 =666.

Or, just read it here.

 

[Billysgingham.]

Cooking bacon slowly, on a low pan heat, makes it less salty !!

Just buy unsalted.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

about 1/6ths of Earth's.
On Earth, for a bloke with mass 100kg, the force he exerts on a weighing scale is 100kg x 9.8m/s/s (ie mass x acceleration due to gravity) = 980Newtons. The scale then translates/scales this force into weight...100kg.
On the moon, the same bloke exerts 100kg*1.5m/s/s =150 Newtons. The scales calibration would then message a lower 'weight'...but of course weight is not really a physics concept - mass is. One's mass doesn't change on the moon...only the pressure exerted on the scales.
In short, you have to recalibrate earth-set scales to read mass correctly on the moon.

Can I shoot myself in the back of my head though