Asteroid to pass by earth Sunday - too close for comfort

[Aztecfan03]

let me put it this way to you...

which weights more, a ton of asteroid? or a ton of silk?

the same, but they have a different surface area and different air resistances.

[cantthinkofanything]

Ok.

Still would like you to write about evaporation.

why do you want me to explain something you should have already learned?

[cantthinkofanything]

the same, but they have a different surface area and different air resistances.

right. they're the same. you answered your own question.

[pgardn]

let me put it this way to you...

which weights more, a ton of asteroid? or a ton of silk?

Weight is a force. They would weigh differently at different al udes. At the same al ude, 1000 kg of asteroid would weigh the same as 1000 kg of silk. Yes.

[Aztecfan03]

right. they're the same. you answered your own question.

i never asked a question. and weight isn't the only variable factor in acceleration and velocity.

[pgardn]

why do you want me to explain something you should have already learned?

To make sure I got it right?

[cantthinkofanything]

Weight is a force. They would weigh differently at different al udes. At the same al ude, 1000 kg of asteroid would weigh the same as 1000 kg of silk. Yes.

read the question again...it's a bit of a riddle...

a TON of anything weights the same as a TON of anything else.

[cantthinkofanything]

i never asked a question.

my apolgies for coming off as flippant. It's a very old trick question. A TON of one thing weighs...a ton. A TON of something else heavier...weighs a ton.

[pgardn]

I see what you are saying now. You are saying it will reach its terminal velocity.

yes possibly, or it might just keep decreasing in velocity meaning it would be accelerating up ( or away from the Earth).

[pgardn]

read the question again...it's a bit of a riddle...

a TON of anything weights the same as a TON of anything else.

So is a ton a force or a mass? How are you using it?

[Aztecfan03]

my apolgies for coming off as flippant. It's a very old trick question. A TON of one thing weighs...a ton. A TON of something else heavier...weighs a ton.

Yes I have heard that since high school or earlier

[cantthinkofanything]

So is a ton a force or a mass? How are you using it?

like a measurement not like a noun

[cantthinkofanything]

Yes I have heard that since high school or earlier

I've been trolled. Well done sir.

[Brazil]

dat trolling cantthinkofanything

[pgardn]

like a measurement not like a noun

So you are saying you are using a ton as a measurement of force or mass? Force and mass are both nouns.

[pgardn]

To make sure I got it right?

Ima waiting...

[Aztecfan03]

I've been trolled. Well done sir.

what are you talking about? If anything you are the one trolling.

[cantthinkofanything]

So you are saying you are using a ton as a measurement of force or mass? Force and mass are both nouns.

I'm using it like if you had a big ing scale and put a ton of asteroid on it. And then put a ton of parachute on it later.

[cantthinkofanything]

Ima waiting...

if you don't understand evaporation, it would be like trying to explain the color red to a deaf person.

[pgardn]

I'm using it like if you had a big ing scale and put a ton of asteroid on it. And then put a ton of parachute on it later.

So what is your scale measuring?

Force, or mass?

[cantthinkofanything]

So what is your scale measuring?

Force, or mass?

it's measuring weight dumbass

[pgardn]

it's measuring weight dumbass

So is that a force or mass? Or neither?

And I need the evaporation thing...

[pgardn]

I'll be back.
Later.

Then we can continue your science lesson and obvious riddle that ain't so obvious.

[cantthinkofanything]

So is that a force or mass? Or neither?

And I need the evaporation thing...

I'll be back.
Later.

Then we can continue your science lesson and obvious riddle that ain't so obvious.

I'll leave my evaporation thesis in your mom's vag. I'll put it just behind the weed eater.

[xmas1997]

What, didn't you hear, the earth was hit and completely destroyed.

This is all a figment of your overwrought imaginations.