If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it .....

If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it ....

  • float away

    Votes: 12 7.4%

  • fall to the ground?

    Votes: 133 81.6%

  • Float where it is

    Votes: 14 8.6%

  • I dont know

    Votes: 4 2.5%
  • Total voters
    163
  • Poll closed .
I have little tolerance/patience for complete idiots. People that fail at basic logical thought can be considered as such.
As far as I'm concerned, ignorance breeds stupidity so I can somehow twist that logic to say that stupid people are stupid because they allow themselves to be.
 
If its a 1000lb pen, it will fall. but you didn't specify how heavy the pen was!
 
What if the pen was real but it's weight was an imaginary number?
But by weight, of course I mean mass. :p
 
Dur, any mass larger than the pen = pulling...WAIT THE MOON IS BIGGER, OH SHIT
 
OH YEA GUYS THEN HOW COME WHEN I DROP A QUARTER IT DOESNT FALL TOWARDS ME AND STICK TO ME?


THEORY DISPROVED!
 
Emporius said:
Weight is relative to gravitational fooooooooorce.
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So what if its 10,000,000,000,000,000 lbs. the pen would win imo. Also lets get into the fact that all the ink would escape the pen, making it weigh less and lose mass. no one brought that important fact up! ;)
 
I ATE YOUR LOGIC FOR BREAKFAST, NOW GIVE ME A SUPER SAIYAN SANDWICH, DON'T HOLD BACK THE MUSTARD.
 
Mass always stays the same (the amount of matter present in something), wherever you are, whereas weight changes depending on the amount of gravity.
Gravity is dependant on the size of an object - everything has gravity.
There is no atmosphere on the moon, thus eliminating any air resistance.

I didn't know that so many people couldn't work out an answer to such an easy question.
 
But how can the Moon have gravity, when it's hollow?
 
wpjiscool said:
Mass always stays the same (the amount of matter present in something), wherever you are, whereas weight changes depending on the amount of gravity.
Gravity is dependant on the size of an object - everything has gravity.
There is no atmosphere on the moon, thus eliminating any air resistance.

I didn't know that so many people couldn't work out an answer to such an easy question.
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People are stupid.
 
Minister said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I cannot comprehend how ridiculously stupid those people are.

This "higher being" needs to stop pushing me down, floating would be so much fun.
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It's from the Onion :) Duh, whaddaru? Stuupid?

Nah, but it's kinda' deceptive to integrate it into a science blog.

EDIT: Damn, too late..
 
Dax said:
It's from the Onion :) Duh, whaddaru? Stuupid?

Nah, but it's kinda' deceptive to integrate it into a science blog.

EDIT: Damn, too late..
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Haha some of the comments there are hilarious though. One guy replied to it seriously and then seems to have a stick up his ass when he finds out it's satire.
 
Come on guys!! Pens would lose their ink in space!! It changes the equation entirely
 
...Every object in the universe has gravity, it's just that the greater the mass the object has the greater it's gravitational pull is on the universe around it. That's why so many planets orbit starts, because they're gigantic in comparison. In space, a pebble would revolve around a boulder, but here on earth, since the planet is much bigger, its higher amount of gravity cancels this action. I'm in a low level chemistry class, and I know this. What the ****?

The only reason you do not feel the force of the objects gravity around you is because the Earths gravity is much stronger.

And I'm not directing it to anybody on this forum, I'm just saying so because I cannot believe this... It gave me goosebumps... It's so bizarre...

I want to move to Mars. Who wants to go with me? We'll start a colony of smart people, and anybody that gets a low enough score on our IQ test has their balls/ovaries ripped out. How bout it?

By the way, about the heavy pen... If there was a pen that weighed more than a certain object, clearly it has more mass, therefor the larger, less dense object would orbit it.
 
Van_Halen said:
...Every object in the universe has gravity, it's just that the greater the mass the object has the greater it's gravitational pull is on the universe around it. That's why so many planets orbit starts, because they're gigantic in comparison. In space, a pebble would revolve around a boulder, but here on earth, since the planet is much bigger, its higher amount of gravity cancels this action. I'm in a low level chemistry class, and I know this. What the ****?

The only reason you do not feel the force of the objects gravity around you is because the Earths gravity is much stronger.

And I'm not directing it to anybody on this forum, I'm just saying so because I cannot believe this... It gave me goosebumps... It's so bizarre...

I want to move to Mars. Who wants to go with me? We'll start a colony of smart people, and anybody that gets a low enough score on our IQ test has their balls/ovaries ripped out. How bout it?

By the way, about the heavy pen... If there was a pen that weighed more than a certain object, clearly it has more mass, therefor the larger, less dense object would orbit it.
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No. A boulder would not have enough mass compared to a pebble to have one orbit the other. Its escape velocity would be so unimaginably low that the pebble's own gravity against the boulder would be enough to keep it from orbiting the boulder. More than likely, if you set them at rest in space, over perhaps billions of years the force of the boulder on the pebble would cause it to collide with the boulder. (Depending on their relative sizes). In order to get the pebble to orbit the boulder, it would need to be given a truly tiny initial velocity relative to the boulder.

And the same goes for the "heavy pen" unless its mass was as great as say, a small asteroid. The force of gravity is unimaginably weak.
 
Van_Halen said:
I want to move to Mars. Who wants to go with me? We'll start a colony of smart people, and anybody that gets a low enough score on our IQ test has their balls/ovaries ripped out. How bout it?
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Lets go!
 
stern wtf...this is HL2.net, not creationtruth.com
 
I clicked "I don't know" because I'm as edgy and cool as DumbDude.
 
What I don't understand about the astronauts who landed on the moon is why weren't they totally ****ing shellshocked by the idea that they were walking on another world? i mean sure it's technically just a scenery change, but god damn... it's like an acid trip.... :>
 
If I had a professor as ****ing dumb as that, I'd get out of the class, report him to the Dean and ask for a refund in tuition.
 
Another question that people often get wrong is "what causes the seasons" - the correct answer is that the tilt of the Earth's axis causes a change in "solar flux" over a yearly cycle.

Towards the poles more sunlight has to be spread out over a greater area than whichever part of the earth is currently facing the sun. In the northern Hemisphere's summer, the tilt makes the northern hemisphere more closely "point" towards the sun, so that's where it's hottest. In half a year, the southern hemisphere gets the same treatment and the northern hemisphere gets winter because it's not "pointing" in the same direction.

A lot of people believe it has to do with the distance from our sun (whether this is to do with the Earth in an elliptical orbit or that "the equator is closer to the sun than the poles") - this has virtually nothing to do with it. The change in energy from the sun with those sorts of distances is absolutely minute.
 
Gunner said:
If I had a professor as ****ing dumb as that, I'd get out of the class, report him to the Dean and ask for a refund in tuition.
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First off a TA is not a professor , he/she was probably still an undergrad or a recent grad.

Secondly a philosophy TA isnt exactly a leading authority on matters of physics.

Thirdly you're blowing things out of proportion.
 
mindless_moder said:
Secondly a philosophy TA isnt exactly a leading authority on matters of physics.
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And understanding how gravity works isn't something you need a degree in physics to do. "It pulls shit downwards." That's it. "They wore heavy boots" is a phenomenally stupid answer, and not one I would accept from anyone associated with a university.
 
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