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They should send jugglers into space
Three-body problem
http://en.wikipedia.../Three_body_problem
Gravitational perturbation. [8th of 7, Aug 23 2012]
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Category - public: royalty ? |
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When there's screaming, it's difficult to concentrate... |
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A problem which has spurred on the
development of the triple-glazed glass mime
box. |
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Can't help picturing those of vague juggler appearance floating dead and frozen against the blackness of space amongst a scattering of bowling pins and coloured balls. |
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Well, it would be rather tricky on the inside of a space wheel, to
compensate for the coriolis effect (if that is what it could be
called). |
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For a greater trick, throw and catch on the other side, at 180
degrees... |
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P.S. How would the flaming torch act be done? |
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Actually, they are descended from Indian Clubs, the old exercise equipment. Jugglers call them "clubs". |
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An astronaut did some "juggling" with apples on one of the space stations. He mostly just moved floating things from place to place. There was some argument whether one can properly juggle while experiencing Zero-G. (The argument was settled by an all-night Combat derby. (The "It wasn't juggling" faction won. (Nobody died.))) |
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Maybe if the smaller object is moved in an orbit around the juggler then something akin to juggling could be done in space. |
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I've got it. You put a juggler in space. A really
fucking accurate juggler. You tell him to throw 6
billion juggling pins just to the left of a nearby
planet, to such a degree that the pin is hooked by
the gravitational force of the planet, swings round it
and exits its orbit, flying back to where the juggler
is, some 2 years later. He then begins to catch them
and throw them again as they arrive, forming a
constant flow of juggling pins, 6 billion in number. |
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Oh yeah, when he throws the first one, he'll move in
the opposite direction by the same force. This is
hard. |
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Maybe if the juggler uses science then it would work? |
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One juggler doesn't work, but two would, if they tossed clubs to one another. [+] |
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In freefall, they'd move further apart;
conservation of momentum. |
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Each club thrown would produce an equal an
opposite reaction. Each club caught would
transfer its momentum to the combined
club-juggler system. |
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As their separation and velocities increased,
accuracy would become increasingly
inportant (and difficult) |
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Also, each "throw" and "catch" has to be
precisely in line with the juggler's centre of
mass, otherwise some of the momentum
becomes rotational. |
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We went outside the Cube and tried this- it's
really hard to do and made us dizzy. |
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That's an interesting closed system...not that the jugglers are
becoming separated (centre of mass is the same), but that a
slight change of angle of throw causes one juggler to spin, but
the other hardly at all. On second thoughts...they must end up
spinning with the same overall momentum, (ignoring the
obviously spinning pin), so...? |
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Throw in some jaguars and jugulars and you've got my bun. |
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"Gun-Juggler could do it..." |
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"He could be juggling with just slightly less force than the discharge of each bullet if each shot had the right trajectory... and he could even pirouette if'n he wanted to." |
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<hawks loogie in the dirt, lights up cheroot> |
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<eerie bandelero music in background> |
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[2 fries], meet Mr Newton. Mr Newton, meet [2 fries]. He would like you to explain the fundamentals of mechanics to him, as he clearly has absolutely no concept of what they are. |
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Ah, you spotted the strings super-glued to the triggers then... |
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