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09-15-2012, 06:54 AM | #226 | |
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09-15-2012, 07:35 AM | #227 | |
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In fact most all the ag chemicals are incredibly safe. You hear a lot about Nitrogen leach. It is a big deal, because the cornbelt puts on a shitassload and it does move. But it is so goddamn cost prohibitive now, everybody is is working to keep it from leaching. Almost all herbicides are super safe, plus you put an incredibly small amount of herbicide spread over a football field (roughly). ALS inhibitors, you apply one TENTH of a dry ounce per acre. Glyphosate, you put a pound on. Insecticides are a bigger deal. It makes sense, the DNA of animals and humans is much closer to insects than plants. But again, regulations are off the ****ing charts for this stuff, and they are not applied nearly as heavily due to other technologies like BT corn and Veptera type products. The reality is that the agricultural world is not even in the same ballpark it was in 1980. |
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09-15-2012, 09:07 AM | #228 |
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Not exactly. It has a lot to do with the mass around you right where you are. More mass around you means more gravity. When you go further into the surface, theres less Earth below you to pull down. The farther you go, the less of Earth there is below pulling you down and the more Earth mass there is above pulling up. At the center you would be weightless because there would be equal mass above and below you, canceling each other out.
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09-15-2012, 10:06 AM | #229 |
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09-15-2012, 11:35 AM | #230 | |
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Definitely. I know because one day I was digging a hole with a backhoe and when I got done I stepped off and went to the edge of the hole to look in and I slipped and fell. By the time I hit the bottom I was going real fast and when I was at the top I was going slow. |
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09-15-2012, 12:34 PM | #231 |
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Hogfarmer is sort of right. The traditional notion that the G field on earth gives 9.8 meters per second squared makes use of the fact ONE is outside the circumference of the earth and can therefore can place all of the mass as if it were at the center of the earth. And for a while g will increase if you are going underground. But once the amount of mass is significant over you compared to the center of the earth than g will drop. as you head to the center where there is "zero g." And technically I think the rebound back and forth through the earth should be close to orbital speed if the satellite was circling just above the holes (ignore air resistance and such)
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09-17-2012, 01:25 PM | #232 |
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Did you know that giraffes have 20 inch long blue tongues? The tongue is prehensile, and spends a lot of time hanging out so it's generally thought that the colour protects it from sunburn.
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09-17-2012, 01:27 PM | #233 |
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09-17-2012, 01:48 PM | #234 |
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09-17-2012, 02:11 PM | #235 | |
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If you could install a tube from one side of the earth to the other, somehow shielding it from the molten core and suck all the air out, what would happen if you jumped in one end? The answer as explained was that you would go falling through the tube, accelerating quickly at first. You would slow down as you went through the center, but your inertia would carry you to almost the other of the tube, where you would come to a complete stop and get pulled back down. You would basically do this over and over and over, travelling a little less each time, until you were just floating in the center where the pull of the earth is the same in every direction (minus the directions of the empty tube). I don't know if it's the correct answer, but it seems plausible and I've always wondered what it would feel like. |
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09-17-2012, 02:25 PM | #236 | |
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you'd die from the acceleration alone, man. your corpse would do what you hypothesize, but it's impossible to feel ANYTHING when you're dead. |
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09-17-2012, 02:28 PM | #237 | |
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09-17-2012, 03:41 PM | #238 |
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Also, I was able to find a link to the original Straight Dope article: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...ough-the-earth According to him: Perfect vacuum == Falling back and forth forever. But throw a little air resistance in and you eventually get stuck in the center. |
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09-17-2012, 04:22 PM | #240 |
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