Comunicating with Martains game

[Fred]

450  and were you communicating with Martians while you were up there?

[DeltaV]

451

Hammering or staple gunning in Morse Code to the Martians?

[XH29N0G]

452 It is a nice day and the sun just rose. 

[Fred]

453  Did the sun really rise or did the planet just revolve?

[JB400]

454

Did you watch earth revolving?

[Fred]

455 I didn't need to watch it......I can feel it........it leaves me feeling tipsy on occasion.

[DeltaV]

456

[JB400]

457

[XH29N0G]

458  Sun rose, now it set.  I think if I were revolving i'd be real dizzy.  I feel fine.....

[JB400]

459 If you spin the opposite direction of the Earth, will you still get dizzy?

[XH29N0G]

460

[ws23rt]

461

If you drive west fast enough you can stop winding up and the days will stop passing. ( Right near the poles, you can do this by walking).
If everyone drove or ran -east- at the same time would that force on the ground slow the rotation of the earth and make the days last longer?

[XH29N0G]

462  I never thought about figuring out how far from the pole I would have to be to walk a 24 hour way around the world, effectively keeping still.  Interesting.  I suppose if we walked at 3 miles an hour, we would need to be about 10 miles from the pole.  Is that right?

[ws23rt]

463

Math is our friend.  The earth is forty billion millimeters around.--Ten billion millimeters from the equator to a pole. This is what the metric liner measure is based on.
It's much easier to do the math in "base ten"--metric.
When you get done with the big numbers turn the result back into inches as needed.  One inch= 25.4000mm--(about)

[JB400]

464.   Could you put that in terms us left fielders could understand?

[XH29N0G]

466.  From the web for Fenway park -  Left Field is 310 feet, but I get stuck after that because ws23rt didn't post the conversion from feet to mm 

[XH29N0G]

466?  In the last post, Did I just fail an addition test?

[ws23rt]

467

Left field is 310 ft. from where? --I've been wandering around there for a few years and still don't know where I am.

BTW   1 in.= 25.400 millimeters. --One foot (12in) is 12 x 25.400 =304.8 mm.
        1 mm = .03937 inches.
        The Equator to a pole = 10,000,000,000 Millimeters. (this is what metric liner measure is based on.)
Now get to work and find the place near the pole to walk -forever- on the same day and wave at the Martians that are pointing and snickering at you.
         

[XH29N0G]

468     oww  "it just said 310 feet"  "not where its from"

[XH29N0G]

469  Didn't some spacecraft get lost because of a units conversion?  Or was it that it accidentally turned left instead of right?

[JB400]

470. Yes, a Mars explorer crashed simply because someone failed to use a conversion table

[DeltaV]

471

[XH29N0G]

472 and apparently another (Phobos 1) was lost because someone left a hyphen out of a command that was sent. ---------------there that should keep us on track. 

Now back to left field. 

[JB400]

473

[Fred]

472 and apparently another (Phobos 1) was lost because someone left a hyphen out of a command that was sent. ---------------there that should keep us on track. 

Now back to left field. 

474  No way am I going back to left field........although it was great meeting a few of you there, it was only after that prick that put us there departed and left the gate open that I managed to find my way back and I'm staying put!