The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIV

[Arakhor]

Which is why the Imperial system should be rolled into bed globally and entirely replaced by the Metric system.

 

[Cutlass]

Fathoms, as we all know, are a unit of measurement to describe where monsters come from, similar to leagues, which describe how far you are under the sea.

You do realize that if you were 20,000 leagues under the sea, you'd be 52,000 miles out in space on the other side, right?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How many leagues is that trench that they went down in a very strong submarine?

 

[Cutlass]

A little over 2.

 

[Ajidica]

I thought leagues refered reffered to distance rather then depth.

 

[Arakhor]

A league is of variable measurement but can be expected to be roughly 3 miles. (Definitely length, rather than depth.)

 

[Cutlass]

I thought leagues refered reffered to distance rather then depth.

Which is what my snark was about.

Park said:

Fathoms, as we all know, are a unit of measurement to describe where monsters come from, similar to leagues, which describe how far you are under the sea.

Where if he had said

describe how far you aretravel under the sea

He would have been better off. If you are 20,000 leagues under the sea, then by the common usage of 1 league = 3 miles, then you are 60,000 miles under the sea, and the diameter of the Earth is under 8,000 miles.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, what if the guy wasnt going straight down, but diagonally at a very very tiny angle?

 

[Arakhor]

The Earth's diameter is 12,742 km or 7,926.41 miles, according to Yahoo Search.

 

[Cutlass]

Get a large sheet of paper and a ruler. Draw a circle 8cm in diameter. Now take a meter stick and see what angle you can draw a line 60cm long and stay within the circle.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well at some point he might bump into a continent.

EDIT: Maybe he went around the world a few times on the way down.

 

[Cutlass]

The Earth's diameter is 12,742 km or 7,926.41 miles, according to Yahoo Search.

I rounded a bit.

 

[Arakhor]

All the best people round, Cutlass.

In answer to an earlier question:

The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the 14 Mariana Islands (11"21' North latitude and 142" 12' East longitude ) near Japan.

The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of about 11.03 kilometres (6.85 mi) at the Vityaz-1 Deep and about 10.91 kilometres (6.78 mi) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft), were set in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, there would be 2,076 metres (6,811 ft) of water left above it.

Edit: Embarrassingly, it would seem that latitude is north/south and longitude is east/west. Two answers for the price of one!

 

[Cutlass]

All the best people round, Cutlass.

In answer to an earlier question:





Edit: Embarrassingly, it would seem that latitude is north/south and longitude is east/west. Two answers for the price of one!

Already answered when I said 2 leagues down.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Having used Celestia long enough, I have the Earth's equatorial radius completely memorized. 6378.14 kilometers.

Still need to memorize the diameter though.

 

[W|M]

I don't know the exact diameter, but I HAVE memorized the speed of light!

 

[Cutlass]

I don't know the exact diameter, but I HAVE memorized the speed of light!

in how many units of measurement?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is it possible to punch a hole in a TV?

If not, whats a humorous way to destruct one in anger?

 

[Cutlass]

Hand grenades.

 

[Arakhor]

The speed of light is 2.997 x10e8 m/s (or 186,000 miles per second). That's easy!

Regarding the Mariana Trench, it's like Tennyson - half a league, half a league, half a league downward!