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so mgk let me drop a pebble on your head from 30 stories and see if it hurts ,or better yet let me drop a pebble on your head from the top of the sears tower.

I can assure you that a mere pebble hitting you in the head if it were dropped from that distance would not just give you a head ache. Granted the chance of a pebble hitting bang on the skull cap is astronomical at best, but, what if just what if you took a pebble in the skull cap from that height, I am pretty sure you would not live a second more. Please see the speed with which the pebble would reach if dropped from the empire state building in this article

http://videolectures.net/mit801f99_lewin_lec12/

You can volunteer to take a pebble in the head at 75 miles per hour but not me, such a small object would have tremendous piercing quality.

Not trying to get personal but I do not accept that scientists could not cause huge issues by shooting things at the moon.

I did not say a top I said a gyroscope which is a far different , go ahead hit a gyroscope and see how well it works immediately after that.

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861615996/gyroscope.html

I am not only refering to a cracking but also the small amount of force that is needed to put forth inertia in outer space.

So let's say nothing ever comes of it whoopty doo, but, let's say they happen to fluke it and hit it in the wrong place and cause some bad stuff to happen. What are they going to say oops we are sorry.

The way the planets move and orbit each other is like a fine tuned swiss watch or german automobile and nasa is like hey lets chuck some sand in the gears and see what happens, I would think that even a grain of sand tossed in a swiss movement watch would have the propensity to cause an issue. Or what of a few grains of sand thrown into the crank case of an auto, maybe does nothing, most probably not but what if it causes a small scoring in a piston wall or minutely clogs a fuel injector port just what if?

Did they really need to toss that grain of sand in the watch or the engine of the automobile just to see? I think not!!!

I am assured in one thing I will not agree with you that the way that they are monkeying with the things will not have some long range effects. And I wont even get started with the ultra low frequency transmitting stations they have positioned all over the globe or the H.A.R.P. program.
 
Yeah the moon is moving away and we get more more unstable on our axis as it does.. ...


so how did this thread become a discussion about the moon? lol
 
chefjamesscott;3947483; said:
so mgk let me drop a pebble on your head from 30 stories and see if it hurts ,or better yet let me drop a pebble on your head from the top of the sears tower.

I can assure you that a mere pebble hitting you in the head if it were dropped from that distance would not just give you a head ache. Granted the chance of a pebble hitting bang on the skull cap is astronomical at best, but, what if just what if you took a pebble in the skull cap from that height, I am pretty sure you would not live a second more. Please see the speed with which the pebble would reach if dropped from the empire state building in this article
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well objects dropped do have a terminal velocity. I may be wrong but 75 miles per hour ends up to be 110 feet per second, slower then a pellet gun(alot slower). you may end up with a welt but it definitely wont kill you.
the whole dropping a penny from the empire states building, type logic is a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2003_season)#Penny_Drop

If the orbits were that fine tuned we would be dead by now. The universe isn't nice enough to have something like that survive.
 
mgk;3948997; said:
well objects dropped do have a terminal velocity. I may be wrong but 75 miles per hour ends up to be 110 feet per second, slower then a pellet gun(alot slower). you may end up with a welt but it definitely wont kill you.
the whole dropping a penny from the empire states building, type logic is a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2003_season)#Penny_Drop

If the orbits were that fine tuned we would be dead by now. The universe isn't nice enough to have something like that survive.
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Ok

I just fired this off to MIT physics dept to see what they say-

Hello there,
I am having a discussion with someone about the effect of a pebble hitting someone on the head if it were dropped from the roof of the sears tower or similar height.
I am of the opinion that it would have dire consequences for the person where as they say it would but give the person a welt. Lets say it has the weight of a penny and is oblong in shape roughly 1/8 inch wide by 1/4 inch long.
Might I get your thoughts on the end result if such an object were to impact a human being on the skull cap?
thanks for your time
Chef james scott allsoupedup@live.ca

I have been shot with a pellet gun and the pellet did not cause a welt but actually pierced the skiin and lodged up against a finger bone. Worse part is I actually shot myself :ROFL: dang gun misfired :ROFL:
 
chefjamesscott;3949114; said:
Ok

I just fired this off to MIT physics dept to see what they say-

Hello there,
I am having a discussion with someone about the effect of a pebble hitting someone on the head if it were dropped from the roof of the sears tower or similar height.
I am of the opinion that it would have dire consequences for the person where as they say it would but give the person a welt. Lets say it has the weight of a penny and is oblong in shape roughly 1/8 inch wide by 1/4 inch long.
Might I get your thoughts on the end result if such an object were to impact a human being on the skull cap?
thanks for your time
Chef james scott allsoupedup@live.ca

I have been shot with a pellet gun and the pellet did not cause a welt but actually pierced the skiin and lodged up against a finger bone. Worse part is I actually shot myself :ROFL: dang gun misfired :ROFL:
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ok I await the answer lol
 
Im no genius but Im guessing the physics brains at NASA like to "doomsday check" their data before they try an experiment out. Im certain that if they reach a conclusion that is catastrophic they wouldnt just gaff it off and say "eh....its just the moon, we can do without it."
As for fatal pennies - I had a neighbor that died from a BB gun shot to the head. I also know two different Marines that have been shot in the head by 7.62 rounds. Neither of those two are dead. Regardless of how fast that penny might get going I believe there are many other variables that would determine its fatality. Youd be surprised how easily someone can die and yet how much others can survive.

Im curious to see what kind of response you get from MIT. I wasnt aware they fielded random questions.
 
I have as of yet to receive a reply from them. I asked the question of one of their prof's who was giving out internet lesson and was welcoming ?'s.

I am pretty sure the gent gets a serious volume of email so their answer may take some time. Rest assured I will post it up as soon as I get a response, if I get a response that is.

Interesting about the person dying from a bb shot, as well interesting about the 7.62.
 
There are glaring errors in many arguments here. People are forgetting that energy transference is energy transference whether it happens in the atmosphere of a planet or the dust of a moon. Also, by adding the device to the moon, we have increased its mass. Put that into your gravitational equations.
 
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