More money than sense....

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Oxo

Guru
Location
Cumbria
He could finish up with more money than some other people have sense.
 

mustang1

Legendary Member
Location
London, UK
I have more apples than computers. Wait, I don't get it. What is the unit of measurement for money and sense.... £ and IQ? Pasettas and miles? What are we talking about here?
 

Oxo

Guru
Location
Cumbria
If the earth is flat how would his satellite stay in orbit? :wacko:
I'm sure Terry Pratchett would have been able to answer that.
 

snorri

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Cp40Carl

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Location
Wirral, England
Satellites orbiting the earth are essentially continually falling forward. It's a bit like continually falling off a cliff. If they earth was flat this wouldn't work.

People believe all sorts of nonsense - miracle conceptions, resurrections, transforming water into wine. Crazy (oblate spheroid) planet.
 

midlife

Legendary Member
Satellites orbiting the earth are essentially continually falling forward. It's a bit like continually falling off a cliff. If they earth was flat this wouldn't work.

People believe all sorts of nonsense - miracle conceptions, resurrections, transforming water into wine. Crazy (oblate spheroid) planet.

I can understand geostationary orbits are tricky but any satellite should rotate about any object's centre of mass? After all the moon rotates around the earth but the earth is not round.
 

Profpointy

Legendary Member
Satellites orbiting the earth are essentially continually falling forward. It's a bit like continually falling off a cliff. If they earth was flat this wouldn't work.

People believe all sorts of nonsense - miracle conceptions, resurrections, transforming water into wine. Crazy (oblate spheroid) planet.

The earth could still be a flat disc and the satellites would go underneath
I can understand geostationary orbits are tricky but any satellite should rotate about any object's centre of mass? After all the moon rotates around the earth but the earth is not round.

Quite. It could orbit round the centre of mass of a disk shaped earth just as it would round a spherical object. OK some correction for mass distribution but would still work - assuming it didn't smack into the turtles at any rate
 
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