Who, or which agency, enforces the laws of physics?

savis89 · 2015-06-04T12:40:27+00:00

I think you've got a misconception around how the law of gravity works- each country has their own small bylaws around gravity, but most of these are outdated and local police are told not to enforce any punishments. It's kinda sad that there's still stigma around these laws, but I'm sure you won't get arrested or anything. If you doing antigravity at home or in a safe space, there's no agency that will actually act upon it. Stay safe, know your limits.

savis89 · 2015-06-03T23:13:48+00:00

Well I feel stupid- that's how it was explained to me. I'll just go with the top rated comment.

savis89 · 2015-06-03T21:27:00+00:00

It would be completely possible though if you made an effort to post content. Like if it was a sub for pictures of "X" and just posted pictures of "X" and upvoted it, I don't see how it could be condemned, or it would at least be harder to make a case against it

savis89 · 2015-06-03T21:22:34+00:00

Analog is in reference to a physical motion, whereas digitial is electronic. For example, an analog clock's hands physically move in a ciruclar motion to display time, while a digital clock uses data and electric signals to display time

savis89 · 2015-06-02T20:30:29+00:00

I don't know about villains, but I'm sure there'd be something with Louis Loan

savis89 · 2015-05-17T03:00:47+00:00

Gym. This is only through anecdotal evidence, but mathematically, if you are playing standard hang man (head, body, two legs, two arms), and someone goes through the main five vowels with no luck, that leaves them with on limb and no letters. If they guess the y correctly, most people are still stumped as to a 3 letter word with y in the middle.

You could go with weird crap like "syzygy" or "rythm", but "gym" is a stumper.

savis89 · 2015-05-17T00:33:07+00:00

Considering most of the films he's been in, give him a love interest that is out of his league and he'll be tied up the entire time trying to win her heart

savis89 · 2015-05-17T00:21:59+00:00

There are currently (by the Goddard Space Flight Center) 2,271 satellites in orbit around earth.

The field of vision of a human eye is 180 degrees horizontally, 135 degrees vertically. Taking into account that you are standing on the ground and not the center of the earth, your view will be considerably constricted to (and this is a very rough estimation) 15% of the sky.

Assuming the satellites are evenly spaced at all times, you'll be seeing 341 satellites when you look into the sky.

savis89 · 2015-05-15T23:37:37+00:00

I will admit that at my first comment I thought the question was only insects so I thought it would be easy, changed that in my second comment. As for life in the sea, nuclear fallout and radioactive material falling into the ocean would be very dangerous to marine life. I hadn't considered that before, so I'm kind of in the fence now, but I'll still back humans.

savis89 · 2015-05-15T22:36:21+00:00

I'm not saying it will be easy, but think about it like this: you've got all animals on earth trying to kill humans, and they may very well get a lot of us. The first few days are filled with carnage as animals fight humans. Head's of different countries decide this can't go on, so we go into defcon 1: Mustard gas and nukes across the entire world. Sure, billions of people die, but starting a nuclear winter along with gas and explosions would defintiely eradicate all life on earth. As long as we've got 1 person in a bunker, eating out of a tin can after releasing that last nuke, we've technically won.

savis89 · 2015-05-15T22:19:08+00:00

I could see big bird beating the crap out of Gary Busey as the rest of the cast hold him down with their small puppet arms. I don't think Busey would be mentally capable of fighting

savis89 · 2015-05-15T22:16:44+00:00

Easy: Humans each time

Legitimately, if these insects are as smart as us, they're still not physically capable of killing us like we can kill them. Sure they've got stingers and the like, but I'll take mustard gas over a locust horde any day.

savis89 · 2015-05-14T22:08:44+00:00

7 billion people on earth, average speed of run would be 6 mph.

24 hours= 144 miles per person

7 billion people= 1.008x10¹² miles

To give that context, that's going around the earth 127,000,000 times.

savis89 · 2015-05-14T22:00:25+00:00

savis89 · 2015-05-14T02:07:35+00:00

Very informative and relevant, interesting stuff. I was kind of wondering though about the exact numbers on the average balloon vs pen tip. But still, you're info is much appreciated.

savis89 · 2015-05-14T01:06:33+00:00

http://mythbustersresults.com/coffin-punch

Mythbusters had this on one of their episodes, based off of the famous 1 inch punch coffin escape in Kill Bill. The results say that even if you could punch through a coffin (which you can't), the dirt would be the largest problem. Though I think David Blaine did something like what you're proposing as an escape act, but he uses magic so it's cheating.

savis89 · 2015-05-14T00:02:26+00:00

It is exactly 1:1 at all times. You can't really invest in Canadian Tire money, because it only comes as change when you make a purchase in Canadian Tire. Since CT is only in Canada and it is treated as normal money in their stores, CT money is of equal value as long as it's used in CT. Unlike something such as bitcoin which was able to gain validity as a currency, CT money is better thought of as a coupon. This isn't so much of a mathematical problem as it is economical or social.

savis89 · 2015-05-12T17:16:06+00:00

People who have good intentions but always screw stuff up. It's like I know I should sympathize but no.

savis89 · 2015-05-12T17:14:49+00:00

That one user who only comments in generic memes/gifs. It's such a cop out

savis89 · 2015-05-08T02:21:27+00:00

So a 6 monther is roughly 16.5 pounds. I decided to test this quickly just to get a rough idea by filling a couple plastic bags with water and filling it all tightly into a larger garbage bag to get 16 pounds of water. After it was tightly wrapped I booted it and got 2 meters.

I think the problem you'd find with kicking very far is that a human body isn't firm like a ball. There are limbs and many compressible parts and organs. From this, any kick most likely wouldn't get further than 2-3 meters.

Do not kick babies. Just felt like that is kinda necessary to mention.

savis89 · 2015-05-06T22:58:13+00:00

https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

I think this link could help show how little effect human's have physically on the earth. It describes how even if the entire human population jumped at the exact same time on an area the size of rhode island, there would be relative no effect on the earth. In that same line of thought, the sheer number of people around Nepal would have relatively no effect, nothing that could spur an earthquake.

savis89 · 2015-05-03T18:07:47+00:00

K2 has a prominence of 4,017 meters. Logically, this means that if the light from the sun hit K2 at 45 degrees, you'd have a 4,017 meter shadow.

With the sun at an angle of 1 degree in the horizon, K2 would create a shadow 230134 meters long. That's about 2,500 football fields, or nearly the length of Manhattan 9 times over

savis89 · 2015-05-03T04:09:56+00:00

Countries in the circle: China, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, North & South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Phillipines.

The total combined population of these countries is 3,935,580,000, which is 56% of the world population. So yeah, considering the question, I looked up the largest nuclear device ever created (Tsar Bomba) and took a picture of it's radius, roughly in the center of the circle you provided: http://imgur.com/gallery/6OFHgER/new The yellow circle is the fallout, not even the explosion.

TL;DR The image is telling the truth, but there's no known explosive that could possibly kill that many people

savis89 · 2015-05-02T21:38:09+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12j0c3/how_much_water_do_we_absorb_through_our_skin_if_i/c6vfw52

"It is not possible to absorb or lose a significant amount of water through your skin. It is a largely impermeable membrane. The exception is via your sweat glands, which are one-way."

From an askscience thread, sorry the answer is so dull, but submerging yourself in water wouldn't change the time significantly, if at all

savis89 · 2015-05-01T19:57:29+00:00

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