Philosophía
"The devil made me do it"
Originally posted by Newjak
why would that cause it to have an acceleration of zero?
There is a difference between velocity and acceleration.
Velocity is a measure of how fast an object is moving. In this case, the moon was moving at 1 km/s.
Acceleration is a measure of how fast an object is changing its velocity. The moon had a velocity of 1 km/s, thus its acceleration was 0.
To anticipate your question:
Even if the moon was moving at 1 km/s and also accelerating with 1 km every second, I still wouldn't explode, and the 5 ton block would still hurt me more.
This is my face as I type all of these:
I'm sorry for being an assh*le about it, but I hate it when people grasp at straws and don't know the subject.
I'll ask you this, at the end, though, with my last straw of hope:
Do you agree, by all common sense accounts and logical deductions, going by the comics, that Hyperion didn't stop two Universes, but only two Earths, and in doing so withstood as much as the Earths themselves could [which is easily calculable]? And that there's no reason to believe he stopped the mass of two Universes?
Do you also agree that to think otherwise, is to say that Earth can withstand the mass of the entire Universe, which is one of the most asinine things ever said on this forum?
If the answer to either of these is 'No', then I'm quite certain that at least 100 people will spontaneously burst into tears around the world, without knowing the reason.
That's also based in physics.