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A 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?
by frisco 18y ago
A 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.
- jgrahamc 18y ago1.354e14 kg assuming the Death Star has a radius of 160 km. However there's conflicting information about the diameter of the Death Star (some say 120 km, others 160 km) and that's the diameter and not the radius. So the Death Star would be considerably lighter than your friend's calculation. My calculations give 3.385e13 kg assuming a radius of 80 km which yields a density of 1.578e-2 kg/m3 or 15.78 g/m3 which is way, way low. In fact it's much lower than the density of air. Three possibilities: I made a mistake in my calculation, Google's gravity value for the Death Star is incorrect, we shouldn't expect consistency from a story George Lucas made up almost 40 years ago.
- markbao 18y agoI think it's that you made a mistake. How could the other possibilities be true!? ;)
- iron_ball 18y agoWouldn't you assume the Death Star has artificial earth-normal gravity, just like all the spaceships? (Not to crash the geeky fun with geeky observations.)
- tsbardella 18y agoPlus the Death Star was full of really dense stuff that was fuel or some ship