Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:33 pm
A boat cruises alongside you, and tows it.USSEnterprise wrote:...Anyways, how the hell do you swim inside of a cage?
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Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:19 pm
Cages come in many sizes.
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:00 pm
Yes there is gravity in space, and gravity would still affect the person, but it wouldn't bear near as much on that person. as Thorin put 1/16 the gravity would be expierenced.SteveK wrote:Not really. The force of gravity is equal to G(m1 *m2) /r^2
Even though the force of gravity would decrease, it would still be quite significant. Remember that there is still gravity in space (actually every single particle in the universe exerts a gravitational force on every other particle in the universe . . . ) but objects have an apparent weightlessness due to being in freefall.
If there wasn't gravity in space . . . how would the moon orbit the Earth?
PS thanks for the math Thorin
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:18 pm
What the hell? Why on earth would anyone swim across the Atlantic Ocean? Couldn't she wait for friggin' boat?
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:40 pm
Lt. Staplic wrote:
as Thorin put 1/4 the gravity would be expierenced.
(Psst it's 1/16)
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:10 pm
She looked up "New York to Paris" on Google Maps a while back and took it literally. (have they fixed that yet?)Mikey wrote:What the hell? Why on earth would anyone swim across the Atlantic Ocean? Couldn't she wait for friggin' boat?
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:29 pm
No CPH, they have not, any over the ocean map gives you directions to swim 
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:32 pm
Maybe those routes are for all the people with cars that transform into submarines.Nickswitz wrote:No CPH, they have not, any over the ocean map gives you directions to swim
...Oh, crap. Disregard that.
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:43 pm
Disregard what I said. They did fix itTsukiyumi wrote:Maybe those routes are for all the people with cars that transform into submarines.Nickswitz wrote:No CPH, they have not, any over the ocean map gives you directions to swim
...Oh, crap. Disregard that.
It was fun to tell people how to get to France, and have something to back me up 
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:29 pm
fixedThorin wrote:Lt. Staplic wrote:
as Thorin put 1/4 the gravity would be expierenced.
(Psst it's 1/16)
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:21 pm
We all have our embarrassing moments. It happens 8)
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:05 am
Brace yourselves, folks: It was all a big hoax. She only swam about 250 miles.
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:07 am
If thats true, which wouldnt suprise me, I'm suprised it took so long to come out.
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:20 pm
Well, that explains how someone could swim the Atlantic.
Re: Woman swims the Atlantic
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:29 pm
Still doesn't explain "why."