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Post by korora on Oct 10, 2011 14:34:41 GMT -5
A gas giant has two inhabited moons. One has a surface gravity 0.9905 (where 1.0000=Earth's surface gravity) and the other 0.7744. The colonists brought baseball and cricket (among other sports) with them, and my question is how much larger would a diamond or oval on the smaller moon have to be? You can't have batters hitting a lot more out-of-the-park homers/boundary sixes on one world than the other.
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Post by Kessie on Oct 10, 2011 15:38:40 GMT -5
Oh gosh, you'd have to get the math whizzes in here. Not to mention how much higher the basketball hoops would have to be, if everybody can leap eight or ten feet off the ground. :-)
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Post by birdnerd on Oct 11, 2011 17:49:36 GMT -5
You'd have to consider air resistance as well as gravity for stuff like baseball.
Generally, less gravity would equal less air unless you're dealing with a pressurized dome sort of arrangement.
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Post by Cat on Oct 12, 2011 14:26:24 GMT -5
Wow, I would never have thought about stuff like this! I haven't a clue, but I'm interested to see the answers!
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Post by Kristen on Oct 17, 2011 20:07:35 GMT -5
You would ask writers a math question ... I'll pass this on to an engineer I know...
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