Recent content by tinypositrons

This is not intended to be taken as racism. I am simply asking why, at an Olympic level, most short distance sprinters are African American black? I have heard that it is attributed to the foot bone being different, and also being blamed on the carbohydrate full yams that make up a huge part of...

I vaguely understand what you mean, and need to say I don't nessercarily agree with what I have said, I am simply putting it forward to be criticised.

They aren't all spheres. Jupiter is significantly wider at the equator than pole to pole. Look at Haumea, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. It has a highly ecliptic shape!

Moons orbit planets. Planets orbit stars. Stars sometimes orbit other stars. Stars orbit galactic centres. How to we know galaxies aren't orbiting super super super massive black holes or something along those lines. And it continues. How do we know this chain is not infinite? Thanks bros Fin

Kepler 22 has generated some hype because it was the first star to have a planet in the habitable "goldilocks" zone to be found by the Kepler Space Telescope. I also know it is somewhere in the constellation of Cygnus. I have done many a Google search on this, yet returned nothing. My question...

It would screw up our lives. That's all I can say.

This is why we love 9a2

People are saying that Kepler 22b looks like it may harbour life. How could we ever know? I was just wandering, but what would the delta v be to do a Hoffmann transfer (if this works on an interstellar scale) to Kepler 22b?

An asteroid has a lot of mass and probably a lot of velocity. If you know a rocket that can get to said asteroid, and still have the delta velocity available to push an asteroid out of orbit, give NASA a ring!

If you had air in your lungs, you would instantaneously explode. Otherwise, your blood and all the water in your body would boil (due to low pressure not temperature). Also, the temperature (in Earth's magnetosphere) fluctuates between approximately -150 and 250 degrees centigrade. A word of...

I read about the concept of the above, but is their any proof that a) they exist and/or b)they are the cause of gravity?

Eg. If I ionised myself (ignoring other problems) would I fall through the floor and eventually stop moving at the center of the gravitational body I was on (assuming I didn't make an orbit).

Thanks guys. I was going to try and drive to space in my Ferrari. Just needed to know so I don't get a ticket from the space police.

Are there "road" traffic rules in Space? Do you have to "stick to the left of your orbit" or "give way to the unmanned vessel"?

If you stuck 1 electron into the inner shell of a hydrogen atom, would the properties change? Thanks all, Joe.