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Obviously the mole people's gravity engines are keeping things stable. Since things like this result in a different gravity in different parts of the world, ca
by robbedpeter 5y ago
Obviously the mole people's gravity engines are keeping things stable.
Since things like this result in a different gravity in different parts of the world, can that be exploited for energy generation, more efficient shipping, or anything beneficial? Is there any benefit in slightly greater or lesser gravity in chemical or chip or materials manufacture?
- labster 5y agoLook, I’m from the government and I’d like to remind you all that the mole people are just a myth. We have mining regulations to save lives, except not from the mole men. Let’s say it’s for safety. Anyway, you should trust the government. Generally the variation in gravitational field is so weak it doesn’t do much except add errors to data. It’s more efficient to launch satellites near the equator, but that’s not because of the Earth’s bulge or gravity, but rather the big radial velocity down there.
- BoxOfRain 5y ago>It’s more efficient to launch satellites near the equator Perhaps one day from the very appropriately named Ascension Island? It would be pricy to ship things out there, but it's had an RAF presence on it for donkey's years and if something went wrong it's very far from population centres and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.
- uberswe 5y agoRAF = Royal Air Force? I'm neither British or American and RAF stands for Recruit-a-Friend to me.
- signaturefish 5y agoCorrect, the British Royal Air Force.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoSorry, I should have wrote that one out! You're correct, it's the Royal Air Force.
- shreyshnaccount 5y agosounds like a cover up to me /s
- smoyer 5y agoIf I could only get a ride to the hole at one of the poles I'd be happy to go visit the mole people. I also heard a rumor that they're suing Australia over the use of "down under".
- Galxeagle 5y agoThere can be interesting impacts on orbiting satellites - mostly gravity irregularities just add stationkeeping work, but they can sometime be leveraged to alter a satellite’s orbital inclination (a plane change). For Lunar orbit they’re even more of a consideration, in addition to Earth’s gravity effect on lunar satellites. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/30nov_highorbit https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/3...
- Railsify 5y agoI thought they were reptilian?