One: You cant use newton’s laws to handle relativistic phenomena. And two, if your leg has a mass of 2kg, 1.1×10^10 J of kinetic energy would require your leg to be moving at about 150 km/second not faster than the speed of light.
launch him anyway
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xkforce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
wahming@monyet.cc 1 month ago
Pretty sure you’re generating twice as much energy as needed, the required speed is only about 106km/s
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Besides, if you really needed those kinds of speed, you’d obviously have to calculate with relativistic formulas. Energy is asymptotical at the speed of light.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not to mention the fusion reaction triggered by a FTL foot connecting with said child’s backside would annihilate both parent and child immediately.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Thats inefficient, you dont need to cancel the angular momentum as there was no time limit on how long it takes rhe child to enter the sun and there also was not a specified required trajectory. The child can just spiral into the sun
Faust@feddit.de 1 month ago
There are no spiral orbits. Canceling the forward motion is exactly what you need to do, to bring down the next periapsis to 0. Now, you can go with a periapsis of about half a million km, because the sun is pretty big, but that is not a significant difference. Getting anywhere near the sun, is the hard part.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Right, I wanted to ask: is that actually the minimum energy to make the child reach the sun? What’s the minimum energy to launch something so it reaches the sun?
KISSmyOS@feddit.de 1 month ago
The minimum would be something like punting your kid to the orbit of Venus for a gravity assist that takes it to one of the outer planets where another gravity assist can push it to the edge of the solar system.
Out there, the angular momentum of the orbiting child will be very low and can be canceled out by a small thrust.
The child will then fall back into the sun. But this requires remote controlled thrusters strapped to the child. And a life support system if you want your child to actually die by burning in the sun. And then, the child will be well into their teens by the time they reach it.
Turun@feddit.de 1 month ago
Right, and what force is acting on the child to make it deviate from a circular orbit into a spiral one?
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 month ago
You could use a gravity assist from another planet
Cutecity@hexbear.net 1 month ago
I don’t think you can achieve a spiral orbit in an area with so little friction, mostly devoid of dust and gas, else the earth would be on one of those too…
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Okay the math is obviously wrong, and it’s not even answering the question.
The question was, how much force. If punting the kid involves a kick, let’s say the foot makes contact with the kid for about 25 cm. Then the force required over this distance is on average 45 GN.
This is equivalent to the child experiencing roughly 180,000,000 G
Sentient@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Faster than the speed of light.
Lol that is some shit maths for a checks note astrophysicist i am shit at maths and even i know its wrong.
JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you arguing that 1.12 billion m/s is NOT faster than the speed of light, or are you arguing that the speed required by the kick is not 1.12 billion m/s? Because if it’s the former, the speed of light in a vacuum is 300 million m/s (to 3 significant figures), or less than one third of that kick speed. If you’re arguing the latter, I don’t feel like checking all of the calculations this early in the morning.
Kaput@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The reliable way to get an answer from the internet is to provide the wrong answer, then someone will come and correct you, providing the answer you seek. (Xkcd, probably maybe?)
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
This is a proven fact. Expose yourself early and often, that’s my motto.
ignirtoq@fedia.io 1 month ago
Cut the extra inch off the long side to get a 4" square, then cut the remaining 1" x 4" piece into 4 1" squares. The boy never said the squares had to be the same size.
If the triangles have already been cut, it's a peanut butter sandwich: use peanut butter on the edges to glue it back together and cut the squares. The child gave you a challenge, think outside the box!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If the triangles have already been cut, the kid gets a brand new sandwich fully intact, crust and all, and a knife. Let’s see you cut this sandwich better than I can brayxtyn
KISSmyOS@feddit.de 1 month ago
If that’s the child’s name, you have no one to blame but yourself, and are probably underqualified for handling a butter knife.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 month ago
Parent’s already thinking outside the biosphere.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Or just get another child. I know they don’t grow on trees but I’m sure they grow somewhere
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The fiery pits of hell
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That not a nice name for the uterus
HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
“Then you’ll be fired.”
“Fine!”
“Out of a canon into the sun.”
nifty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do. It.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Why does it have to be a kick? Could I generate that force with a car?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Surely they’re not so mad that they need to kick their child into the sun. I’m sure a low solar orbit would suffice.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Always funny to see the memes show up here a week after I get sent them from friends who still use Facebook and Fark.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
The circle of memes
siderealyear@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think I scared my wife and kid I laughed so hard.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then how does Superman throw people into the sun? I think this mathematician needs to read a few comic books.
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s your own damn fault for not asking first what they wanted.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Can’t they use a ladder?
strawberry@kbin.run 1 month ago
or
heavier foot
tape + brick
Jerkface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wanted a least squares solution, but all I got were these right triangles!
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What if you could kick him into space, making an orbital transfer to Jupiter, from which the kid gets a gravity assist that bounces the kid into a more elliptical orbit that then sends him into the sun?
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was really hoping he was going to convert the amount of energy needed into calories, then from calories into peanuts butter sandwiches
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
1 calorie is interchangeable for approximately 4.1868 joules. Therefore, assuming his math was correct (many say it was not), I’m coming up with 2,687,016,337 calories needed. According to google, sourcing from the USDA, your average peanut butter sandwich has 384 calories. Therefore you’d be expending approximately 6,997,438 peanut butter sandwiches worth of energy to punt the ungrateful little shit into the sun.
wanderer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the US, the calorie used in nutrition data is actually a kilo calorie.
cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
384 cal or 384 kcal per sandwich?
Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Same.