Thread: What are all the 2012 predictions?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

The planet Mercury has a hell of a lot stronger pull on the Sun than Jupiter and Saturn combined. Jupiter is almost a half a billion miles away and Saturn is 900 million. If you thought their gravity was that strong, show me an ocean tide caused by Jupiter.

...so what? Jupiter is like, 500 times as massive. I just did the math and unless I dun goofed, at their semiaxes, Jupiter's influence is 35 times that of Mercury's.

It's at times like these I wonder how you could possibly know general relativity if you don't get stuff like inverse square (...not exponential) laws. :/

Originally Posted by Xei

...so what? Jupiter is like, 500 times as massive. I just did the math and unless I dun goofed, at their semiaxes, Jupiter's influence is 35 times that of Mercury's.

It's at times like these I wonder how you could possibly know general relativity if you don't get stuff like inverse square (...not exponential) laws. :/

I love your brain. When you die, it should be placed in the Smithsonian museum.

Originally Posted by Jeff777

I love your brain. When you die, it should be placed in the Smithsonian museum.

I love and frequently have intercourse with my brain too, but this is just 'high school stuff' with a side order of Wikipedia.

Originally Posted by Xei

...so what? Jupiter is like, 500 times as massive. I just did the math and unless I dun goofed, at their semiaxes, Jupiter's influence is 35 times that of Mercury's.

It's at times like these I wonder how you could possibly know general relativity if you don't get stuff like inverse square (...not exponential) laws. :/

Did I say exponential, I meant inverse square. I did the math last night and I got mercury pulling on the sun almost ten times as hard as Jupiter.

EDIT: You're right, jupiter pulls 30 times harder, I must have miscalculated one of the scientific notations. It still doesn't make the slightest difference. I'm positive that the pull of the moon is hundreds of times stronger than Jupiter on earth, I don't even need to do the calculations for that.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Did I say exponential, I meant inverse square. I did the math last night and I got mercury pulling on the sun almost ten times as hard as Jupiter.

EDIT: You're right, jupiter pulls 30 times harder, I must have miscalculated one of the scientific notations. It still doesn't make the slightest difference. I'm positive that the pull of the moon is hundreds of times stronger than Jupiter on earth, I don't even need to do the calculations for that.

Sorry yes, I wasn't really taking into account whatever you were making an analogy about, I was addressing what I saw.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

The sun always wobbles around the center of mass of the solar system. Most of the time the center of mass of the solar system is outside the sun, so the sun orbits it. The Mayans new this and most astronomers to this day don't know this.

Hahahahahahahaha.... oh boy.