Lost in Space
That's true enough. I was just irritated at Randall for not bringing conservation of momentum into it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Redmess
It can cause a movement, yes, but it would be so proportionally small that it would just fade into the background noise of all other movement within the Earth system.
And that's assuming a rigid system. The earth being what it is, they may just cause the local plate to bob up and down very slightly, which wouldn't really move the Earth at all.
Edited by Redmess on Apr 16th 2024 at 10:42:21 AM
Optimism is a duty.
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Whether the earth moves depends on how you define "the earth" as a system, and that choice is more relative to the topic of interest than it initially appears based on introductory physics examples. :P
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Filthy casual
Redmess
This feels more random than funny, to be honest.
Optimism is a duty.
Lost in Space
It's a riff on many of the future predicted eclipse viewing locations being awful.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lost in Space
I want to see a pub unironically run these questions in its trivia feed.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
You don't understand: the answer to all ten questions is me.
- 1. All of them.
- 2. As many sides as a given platonic solid has, i.e, 4 for a tetrahedron, 6 for a cube, et cetera.
- 3. Benxi Lake in Liaoning Province, northeastern China.
- 4. Jaws.
- 5. 7. Sol, Luna, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn, at the time the term 'planets' was coined.
- 6. Jack Kemp. Former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, he made many points as a US Representative and candidate for president.
- 7. The last airplane has yet to be built.
- 8. As far as we currently know, yes.
- 9. Melbourne, the cultural capital of Australia.
- 10. David Grohl. He's the devil, he can do what he wants.
- Bonus Question. Yes.
Edited by Daremo on Apr 19th 2024 at 10:48:38 AM
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
The They who said it
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Corrections:
- All of them unless some number of them die or were not born.
- Sides is not a geometry term, zero.
- <No correction needed though lake definition is arbitrary>
- <No correction needed>
- 0, planets did not exist in the early universe.
- I've arbitrarily awarded 1010 points posthumously to Ernie Nevers, thus making him the answer.
- Caleb Smith who built a paper airplane at the time of the writing of this question
- No, and you can't prove otherwise.
- The Letter A.
- Ug Johnson, inventor of the Drum.
- Bonus: Statistically, the United States, which has more cities named london than anywhere else.
Filthy casual
Lost in Space
Triangle scariness index:
0. Right
1. Isosceles
4. Shark
7. Iceberg
Since Monday's comic was late, here's today's early: #2924: Pendulum Types
"Summons Maxwell's Demon". Ha.
Edited by Fighteer on Apr 24th 2024 at 9:15:16 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Industrious Incisors
Redmess
Here's a video showing just how cursed a double pendulum is.
It's kind of astonishing to watch just how erratic it moves.
Here's another cursed one with a circular bottom half:
No idea what's going on in this demon's contraption:
Edited by Redmess on Apr 24th 2024 at 4:36:12 PM
Optimism is a duty.
Industrious Incisors
Redmess
What, no one wants to talk about crazy pendulums? Lot of nerds you are... 
Forget the double pendulums, it the vibrating cornstarch inverted ones that I'm worried about.
Lost in Space
The real Doppler effect is the ability to get science teachers to make funny noises with their mouths.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
I remember finding out about it thanks to Warcraft III. XD
“I will now demonstrate the Doppler effect. (far off) Doppler!”
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Lost in Space
It took me a second for this one just because it's so weird that my brain couldn't parse it immediately. Poor Weeoming, indeed.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
I don't follow. Does it mean earlier in the alphabet means having a larger size? But Hawai'i is largest...
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Industrious Incisors
That seems to be the intent, though scale seems to be off...
Lost in Space
Hawaii is a bunch of smaller islands so its total area is less than the drawing makes it seem. It's an optical illusion.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
You'd accomplish more by moving all that weight to Rhode Island in the first place. The planet's center of gravity would change ever so slightly, inducing precession as it found a new equilibrium along its axis of rotation. Not much precession of course, but we measure similar effects when earthquakes happen.
I mean yeah, the earth would move in some way though.
All those people jumping induce a tiny earthquake, and as you said, earthquakes are capable of altering earth's behavior. (I don't know how, it feels like it should violate some conservation law, only that it's measurable for larger earthquakes so it must be true.) It's just that it would be essentially nothing, and the earth isn't rigid in real life so even then it would probably be even less of an effect than a proton width.
Edited by Florien on Apr 16th 2024 at 1:36:41 AM