How long is...

[riff]

39 trips around the sun in miles?

 

[badasschick]

22,777,560,000 mi.

 

[badasschick]

that's if you stayed on earth, whilst traveling.

 

[riff]

that's if you stayed on earth, whilst traveling.

Damn, that's a long trip! How fast have we been going?

 

[badasschick]

81mi per sec.

happy b-day

So how is the ride so far?

 

[riff]

God answers prayers.

I prayed: "God, I don't care what you do to me, just please make it interesting."

He has not disappointed me yet. Thrills, chills, spills, qucik reverses, moments of crowning achievement, cast into the pits of hell, and lots and lots of pussies.

Maybe one day. Maybe one day, I'll meet someone and we can make a family, even if only a family of two. Maybe one day.

 

[badasschick]

God answers prayers.

I prayed: "God, I don't care what you do to me, just please make it interesting."

He has not disappointed me yet. Thrills, chills, spills, qucik reverses, moments of crowning achievement, cast into the pits of hell, and lots and lots of pussies.

Maybe one day. Maybe one day, I'll meet someone and we can make a family, even if only a family of two. Maybe one day.

perhaps!

 

[riff]

As a gift to my students, I asked them to calculate the distance, but to also include that if I stand at a fixed point, and the earth is spinning as it travels around the sun, then how far have I really gone?

I'll share their answer with you.

 

[badasschick]

of course the first figure is based on if the Earth had a round orbit.

I have no idea off the top of my head what the formula for the circumference of an elipse is.

 

[Coven911]

hmmmmmmmmm.......

At Perigee or Apogee????

 

[riff]

I told them to assume a circullar orbit.

93,000,000 = r
2 * 3.14 = 584,336,234 miles per year
584,336,234 * 39 = 22,789,113,126 miles over life

Including daily rotation and assuming I stood at a fixed point on the surface on equator:

Circumference of Earth (E) = 24,842.55

E * 365.25 = 9,067,725.72 rotational miles (R)
R * 39 = 353,641,303.1 rotational miles over life (RL)

22,789,113,126 orbital miles + 353,641,303.1 =

23,142,754,429.1 miles over my life

OK. I can live with it. I get around.

 

[Dillinger]

There are a good number of people here at Lit that I would be willing to take 39 trips around the sun in, but Miles is NOT one of them...

 

[riff]

There are a good number of people here at Lit that I would be willing to take 39 trips around the sun in, but Miles is NOT one of them...

heheheh Please be sure he sees this... hehehehe

 

[ginslinger]

Too long...

Seems to me in just one trip around the sun... U return and ur family and friends r all dead and gone... The world has become a cold and lonely place... Just the way u left it...

 

[badasschick]

I told them to assume a circullar orbit.

93,000,000 = r
2 * 3.14 = 584,336,234 miles per year
584,336,234 * 39 = 22,789,113,126 miles over life

Including daily rotation and assuming I stood at a fixed point on the surface on equator:

Circumference of Earth (E) = 24,842.55

E * 365.25 = 9,067,725.72 rotational miles (R)
R * 39 = 353,641,303.1 rotational miles over life (RL)

22,789,113,126 orbital miles + 353,641,303.1 =

23,142,754,429.1 miles over my life

OK. I can live with it. I get around.

d=186,000,000 mi
Pi=3.14
Cir= 584,040,000 mi

39(pi*d)
39(584,040,000)=22,777,560,000mi

are you accounting for the diameter of the sun also in the orbit?

 

[Thunder69]

pi?

did I see pi in here?
now I am hungry and I need ice cream with my pi

 

[badasschick]

Re: pi?

did I see pi in here?
now I am hungry and I need ice cream with my pi

what flavor do you serve with creme pi?

 

[Thunder69]

Re: Re: pi?

what flavor do you serve with creme pi?

sweet with a hint of saltiness .... not sure what the flavor is called

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I told them to assume a circullar orbit.

93,000,000 = r
2 * 3.14 = 584,336,234 miles per year
584,336,234 * 39 = 22,789,113,126 miles over life

Including daily rotation and assuming I stood at a fixed point on the surface on equator:

Circumference of Earth (E) = 24,842.55

E * 365.25 = 9,067,725.72 rotational miles (R)
R * 39 = 353,641,303.1 rotational miles over life (RL)

22,789,113,126 orbital miles + 353,641,303.1 =

23,142,754,429.1 miles over my life

OK. I can live with it. I get around.

Well I'm glad you gave us the whole calulation then, because I mucked up on the second to last step......

yeah right, like I could work all that out lol

 

[Dillinger]

A slice of Miles pi?

Yuck...

 

[riff]

OK, what about this.

I asked them:

If someone took off in a lightship traveling at 186,000 miles per second (speed of light) on my birthday 4/17/1963, about how long would they have to travel in order to come back home and find me now at 39 years old?

I suspect, it would not take too much time at all.

 

[badasschick]

1.27 e-10 sec.

Riff years= 22,777,560,000mi/Light year=5,901,300,000,000 mi

.004mi per Riff year/31.6 mil sec =1.27e-10 sec.


Basically your trip would end before it started

 

[badasschick]

A light year is a distance rather than a time frame, as is a light second. So therefore it has to be converted into time by dividing it into your year/distance. and then converted again to seconds.

Sorry for the geek out. I try to suppress.

 

[riff]

A light year is a distance rather than a time frame, as is a light second. So therefore it has to be converted into time by dividing it into your year/distance. and then converted again to seconds.

jesusfuck, baby, youARE one hell of a badasschick!

 

[badasschick]

thanks!

Anytime you need a little badass, I'll be around.