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March Stundie Nominations

Pure_Argent said:
How so? Wouldn't the mass of a supercontinent - Pangaea - be the same mass as the current continents totaled?
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Yes it would.
And how would this be greater than the mass of all the water on the other side of the planet?
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Well, a continent stick up above sea level and have a higher density than seawater. So that could give a slight imbalance/wobble in the planets rotation. :)
 
Toke said:
Yes it would.

Well, a continent stick up above sea level and have a higher density than seawater. So that could give a slight imbalance/wobble in the planets rotation. :)
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Hm. Thanks. I'm gonna have to do some more research on this...
 
Toke said:
Well, a continent stick up above sea level and have a higher density than seawater. So that could give a slight imbalance/wobble in the planets rotation. :)
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Still, I think the tendency would be for the mass to distribute evenly around the equator, not one of the poles. That's ignoring plate tectonics, though, for the most part...
 
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Cl1mh4224rd said:
Still, the tendency would be for the mass to distribute evenly around the equator, not one of the poles. That's ignoring plate tectonics, though, for the most part...
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Yes, I said he got one part right, the bit about continents being heavier than seas, the rest is bull.
He got this part right, then he got a slight problem of scale for the rest.
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I am not disputing the stundieness.:)
 
Toke said:
Yes, I said he got one part right, the bit about continents being heavier than seas, the rest is bull.


I am not disputing the stundieness.:)
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No, no. I realize that. I was just throwing that out there. (Partly for correction if my thinking was wrong.)
 
I am not a geologist, but yes if one ignore plate tectonics centrifugal force should settle the continents around equator. :D
 
There is evidence that in pre-Cambrian times there was a supercontinent over the south pole and that centrifugal forces caused a radical realignment that moved it to the equator. It's called True Polar Wander IIRC.
 
Danyone in the Marihuana conspiracy thread:

Why else would there be an almost world wide ban on an immensely useful and easy to grow asset? And it gets you high without even being distilled! The elites have grown rich by using their total control of OIL, and other fossil fuels and making sure they are the only main sources of energy, to grow filthy rich and all powerful over the last century. It seems to have worked out very well for them. Also the crappy food supply keeps their subjects fat and dumb enough to be easily duped and controlled. Hemp is a wildcard to these guys. People could become self sufficient by owning a 10-20 acres of land, with the proper technology. That is not in the interest of powerbrokers who want central control.
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Hemp. First a major component in rope, textiles and paper, and now an oil substitute. Is there anything it can't do?

McHrozni
 
Toke said:
Yes it would.

Well, a continent stick up above sea level and have a higher density than seawater. So that could give a slight imbalance/wobble in the planets rotation. :)
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Which IIRC is exatly what we have now, unless I misunderstood the concept of precession.
 
No one who hasn't studied the matter has any doubt.
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Wait, isn't that saying that the people who have no doubt haven't studied the matter?
 
Heiwa continues to expand on the theme of bouncing buildings.
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A more interesting case is when the dropped top part, let's call it C, has same structure as the fixed part below, let's call it A. When A > C size wise, C can evidently never crush down A below by gravity, as C cannot apply sufficient force and energy on A. In most cases C actually just bounces.
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http://boards.trutv.com/showpost.php?p=38601&postcount=55
 
dafydd said:
Wow,I knew that Heiwa was a few sandwiches short of a picnic,but I didn't know that he was that far gone.
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Funny you should say that, his craziness started with a picnic table collapsing in his back yard.
 
McHrozni said:
Danyone in the Marihuana conspiracy thread:



Hemp. First a major component in rope, textiles and paper, and now an oil substitute. Is there anything it can't do?

McHrozni
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Well, it still makes a really bad cup of coffee:D

10-20 acres of land each ,,, hmmm, 7 billion people times 10 acres= 70 billion acres.
ETA: looking it up, it seems the total land mass of the entire earth is 37 065 807 220 acre so even if the entire landmass were arable (it of course isn't) we still only have half as much as Dandyone believes would support all of us.
OMG they have to kill off 50% of the earth's population!!!1111!111!!!

Anyone know the total arable land on earth? (gotta discount the polar regions, mountain tops, swamps, oceans and lakes, etc.)
Would we have to clear cut much of the forested land on earth?
 
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Well, I don't know about arable land, but if I did the math right, the 7 billion of us all get 18,000 FIVE acres each. But we have to spread out a bit. :)

510072000000 Square Kilometers = 126041536135719.95 Acres / 7 Billion ~ 18,000 acres / person

148940000 Square Kilometers = 36803875515.719604 Acres / 7 Billion ~ 5 acres each.

Ah, what the heck. Here is arable land:

41440170 Square Kilometers = 10240089015.91418 Acres / 7 Billion ~ 1.5 acres each.

Oops.
 
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carlitos said:
Well, I don't know about arable land, but if I did the math right, the 7 billion of us all get 18,000 acres each. But we have to spread out a bit. :)

510072000000 Square Kilometers = 126041536135719.95 Acres / 7 Billion ~ 18,000 acres / person

Ah, what the heck. Here is arable land:

41440170 Square Kilometers = 10240089015.91418 Acres / 7 Billion ~ 1.5 acres each.

Oops.
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According to wiki(and confirmed on another site) the total land mass of Earth is 148,939,063 km² 150 million sq.Km
Where did you find 510 billion?
 
My mistake - you have it right. 510 is total including water. So we would really have to spread out a bit!

ETA - and I used billion, not million. Losing it.

Can I get some kind of mini-stundie for claiming that the earth has half a trillion acres of land in the actual stundie topic thread? I was off by a factor of 3,600!
 
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Memhmet Inan over at Facebook: "9/11 CTs are BS" continues to be a fountain of stupid:

For the space beam of JW [Judy Wood], only the name was enough to tell it's wrong.
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For the rest of us, however, it's the fact that she's talking about a giant frakking orbital laser cannon that tells us she's full of @#$%.

Mehmet also has an odd definition of courtroom standards (same thread):

Now, my work is usable in a justice court. Unfortunately there is no justice court where I can use it.
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