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Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I
Fourth entry from the top: const float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I = 3.5303614E-7.
- ErrantX 18y agoGotta love googles sense of humor!
- henning 18y agoHow exactly did they compute that constant? I suspect the figure they give is the result of many heated debates and much flaming on mailing lists and whiteboards.
- deathbyzen 18y agoWell theres so much material in the Expanded Universe including a book called "Death Star" that tells the story of the Rebel Alliance victory from the perspective of people who worked there. So, I would just have to assume that they went over the specs/dimensions/weight of the Death Star at some point. http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstar/?id=eu http://www.starwars.com/databank/location/deathstar/?id=eu
- mechanical_fish 18y agothe story of the Rebel Alliance victory from the perspective of people who worked [in the Death Star] I hope that Randal from Clerks is credited in the author's acknowledgements.
- nfriedly 18y agoThat page itself has conflicting reports of the size. At the top it says "Size: 160 kilometers in diameter," but lower on down the page, it says "The Death Star was 120 kilometers in diameter."
- maxtilford 18y agoMy 'A Guide to the Star Wars Universe' is telling me the first one was 120 km, and the second one was 160 km.
- rkowalick 18y agoGRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I clearly tells us they are only concerned with the first death star...not the second. Future versions of Android may feature GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_II
- jbert 18y agoIt's also only valid at a certain radius (probably the surface). So the sensor wouldn't be calibrated correctly after you went inside (it would be off by differing amounts depending how far from the center you were). The same is true of the constants for the planets, but at least they are (mostly) solid and not designed to be lived inside of.
- frisco 18y agoA friend worked out the math and it assumes a mass of 1e14 kg for the death star. also, i just noticed a GRAVITY_THE_ISLAND a couple more lines down. what?
- MrRage 18y agoThe Island on Lost, perhaps?
- unalone 18y agoI always thought that was electromagnetic. Does The Island have impressive mass as well?
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- dchest 18y agoYes, it's 4.815162, Lost numbers are 4 8 15 16 2[3 42].
- hugh 18y agoAhhh, right, that explains it. However, while I haven't watched every episode of Lost I think it'd be a lot more noticeable if gravity there was 4.815162 times regular Earth gravity. Everybody would be crawling around, for starters.
- frisco 18y agoyeah, though the numbers don't seem to be multiples or constants (except for the death star one), they seem to be metric accelerations
- lucraft 18y agoAlso SENSOR_TRICORDER: "When this sensor is available and enabled, the device can be used as a fully functional Tricorder."
- bigthboy 18y agoI bet they called George Lucas and asked him...
- jotto 18y agoor referenced the essential guide to vehicles and vessels http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Vehicles-Vessels-Star/dp/034539299X/ http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Vehicles-Vessels-Star/...
- twopoint718 18y agoWhat, no fine structure constant? Not even h-bar?
- markessien 18y agoThe real mystery is - why did they drop the e from neptune?