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0 pointsmesse2y ago0 comments

> Shooting from the hip, approx the circumference of the earth.

You're quite a bit off.

It's actually a little under 4 million km; several times the diameter of the sun.

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Damogran62y ago· 1 in thread

There's a reason why shooting from the hip isn't very accurate. :)

SideburnsOfDoom2y ago

It's not that it's an "not very accurate" loose relation; there is no relation at all. The two numbers concern different forces - gravity inward due to mass vs. centrifugal force outwards due to spin.

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