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Offline Guppy35

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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2011, 01:37:14 AM »
i would dive in after it and drink it before it got to him

Seems like it would have made more sense to sit down, drink the beer and ponder the possibilities
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2011, 01:41:00 AM »
If it always passed through the center at terminal velocity, wouldn't it keep going the same distance? All outside factors rendered null, it would be like swinging a big pendulum.
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #32 on: September 24, 2011, 05:05:57 AM »
If it always passed through the center at terminal velocity, wouldn't it keep going the same distance? All outside factors rendered null, it would be like swinging a big pendulum.

If you ignored EVERY potential force except gravity then yes.  Otherwise there are myriad forces acting on the can that will slow it down.

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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #33 on: September 24, 2011, 08:00:34 AM »
you guys smoke a lot after the sun goes down I think.   :neener:
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #34 on: September 24, 2011, 08:08:25 AM »
you guys smoke a lot after the sun goes down I think.   :neener:

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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #35 on: September 24, 2011, 09:11:39 AM »
I was going to ask, who LSU was going to loose to this week?
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #36 on: September 24, 2011, 09:21:04 AM »
Say I could drill a hole through the North to South axis of the Earth.  I didn't have to worry about hot LAVA or different air pressure between North or South.  It's a straight shot from North to South and I drop a can of beer through the North side of this hole.  Will my friend Sebastian be able to catch this can of beer on the South end?
it would do two things, ethier

emploded when close to center due to the magnetic field

or would simply   float in the center
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #37 on: September 24, 2011, 09:23:51 AM »
Oh yeah, like there is even a chance a can of beer would get past the little people underground.

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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #38 on: September 24, 2011, 11:17:18 AM »
We don't need any negative imploding Old's waves, keep them to yourself babe.
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #39 on: September 24, 2011, 11:18:19 AM »
Oh yeah, like there is even a chance a can of beer would get past the little people underground.

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Offline APDrone

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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #40 on: September 24, 2011, 11:47:42 AM »
If it always passed through the center at terminal velocity, wouldn't it keep going the same distance? All outside factors rendered null, it would be like swinging a big pendulum.

Look at some extremes..  You drop a feather from a mile up.. it's terminal velocity might be 5 miles an hour.
If you turned around and threw that feather back up at 5 mile per hour, do you think it would have enough E to go up a mile?

Same thing for a piece of paper..

I use those two examples to give a better visualization of what air friction can do to an object.

Keep in mind, there's no terminal velocity in a vacuum.  ( hammer  vs. feather drop )
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #41 on: September 24, 2011, 12:58:39 PM »
I'm thinking if a beer can were exposed to a near 0 psi vacuum. The can would probably burst open. Especially because water boils at just above 32 deg F (0 deg C) at 0 absolute psi.

Aside from exploding if the can didn't experience any type of friction resistance. Then yes it would reach the opposite side of the earth.

Personally, I would probably drink the beer first and then pee into the hole. Then I would call the guy on the opposite side of the earth and tell them to get ready to catch it :t
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #42 on: September 24, 2011, 02:44:40 PM »
here's to physics!  :cheers:





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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #43 on: September 24, 2011, 02:46:44 PM »
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Re: What would happen, if
« Reply #44 on: September 24, 2011, 05:14:29 PM »
I wonder what would happen if either one of you was in a dry country.  or perhaps dropped the can on a sunday morning.  you would both go to hell.

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