On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 13:54, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <3209.12.6.201.213.1310686158.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com>, > "J. For > ster" writes: > > >If you got all the Chinese to just stand on a chair, it would increase the > >Moment of Inertia of the earth a smitch, and it would slow the rotation > >because of the Conservation of Angular Momentum. > > 1. It's not obvious that there are that many chairs in China. > > 2. It really does not change the momentum that much: > > m(pop,china) = 1.5e9 * 50kg = 7.5e10 kg > m(earth) = 5.97e24 kg > > A ratio of roughly 8e13... > Spoilsport! If you are going to do the actual calculations, that rather destroys my daydreaming! -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
