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[challenge entry] Sweet jesus!

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(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:33, archived)
# I bet the ashtray is faster!!


(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:35, archived)
# If a record was spinning at 33 1/3 rpm,
what diameter would it have to be for the outer edge to achieve light speed?

Also, if you were to extend the diameter by a further meter, would the outer rim exceed light speed?
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:37, archived)
# Only SCIENCE! has the answer!


(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:42, archived)
#
SCIENCETM
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:54, archived)
# (c*9/5)/pi metres?
and i expect the edge would crackle with a mysterious energy, before imploding and taking the universe with it. ideal youtube material
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:49, archived)
# no, wait
that's wrong
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:51, archived)
# I'm genuinely interested
This question has plagued me since, well since last week
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:55, archived)
# i expect the answer is that space bends so that it all goes at the speed of light
which is why relativity is so cool and counterintuitive

i'll ask the missus when she gets back from the shops. she's a physics spod
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:06, archived)
# Hm
I believe the mass of the vinyl would be the limiting factor.
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:32, archived)
# LA LA LA
I CAN'T HEAR YOU

*skips off, fingers in ears*
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:37, archived)
# LA LA LA
I CAN'T HEAR YOU

*Foreskin piss fingers* (af)

/relurks
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:55, archived)
# I know from when I worked on hocolopters
the rotor blade length/speed was limited so as to keep below the speed of sound or else the whole mechanism would shatter. Not sure if a disc would survive it.
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:48, archived)
# odd enough
I wondered about that too

and found no answer.

(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:02, archived)
# you can't...
...get enough energy to accelerate it to lightspeed

the closer a mass gets to c, the more energy is required to accelerate it, to actually get to c would need infinite energy


(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:26, archived)
# Oh, welcome to b3ta :D
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:44, archived)
[challenge entry] pffftttt.....

hope you dont mind - i'll squeeze this in here!
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:45, archived)
# hahahahaha
brilliant
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 17:51, archived)
# clicks and chunders!!!
click again
(, Wed 1 Apr 2009, 18:49, archived)