The earth is just over 6km in radius....? Huh
I think that’s off by a factor of 1000.6km is not 6000km.
If one is going to generate silly numbers it would be far more useful to compute the torque needed to spin the planet up from 1 rev per day to 1 rev in, say exactly 24 +/- 0 seconds taking one year to do it.
Quote from: tpl on September 05, 2018, 08:28:55 amIf one is going to generate silly numbers it would be far more useful to compute the torque needed to spin the planet up from 1 rev per day to 1 rev in, say exactly 24 HOURS +/- 0 seconds taking one year to do it.interesting question...would it be possible to spin the earth so fast, that stuff starts flying off it?
If one is going to generate silly numbers it would be far more useful to compute the torque needed to spin the planet up from 1 rev per day to 1 rev in, say exactly 24 HOURS +/- 0 seconds taking one year to do it.
Yes, but then the earth would also disintegrate...