That sounds like a lot, but you can get that many Joules from burning just a gram of coal. That's about 0.1% of the thrust of just one Boeing 747 engine, but then again the delicious feline doesn't weigh 900,000 pounds.īut could the furry/delicious abomination actually produce such thrust? Where would it get the energy to do so? (C'mon, you've come with me this far already.)Īccording to some of the oddest calculations I’ve ever seen, a strawberry Pop-Tart the size of a housecat contains about 51,000 Joules of energy. If that were the case, Nyan Cat's rainbow magically generates around 300 Newtons of thrust. Nyan Cat's rainbow could have a thrust-to-weight ratio of 10-to-1. If the critter can outperform the jet, it would also outperform its engines. The escape velocity of the Moon-and therefore Nyan Cat's velocity in my feline fantasy-is twice as fast as our fastest jet the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. That little cat is indeed excreting a hypersonic rainbow out its backside. For the Moon, this turns about to be about 2,375 meters per second-or around seven times the speed of sound in air. This critical speed is dependent on the mass and size of the object producing the pull, as well as a defined gravitational constant. Like how rockets on Earth must do, Nyan Cat would have to reach the escape velocity of the Moon. If Nyan Cat landed on the Moon to do its business, the strawberry-flavored critter would eventually have to get off the surface-it would have to escape the Moon’s gravitational pull. And what better place to take off and land from than the giant litter box that is the undisturbed regolith of the Moon? That’s because this cosmic cat, this ubiquitous meme, has to take off and land adorably in space. An 8-bit Pop-Tart kitty moves twice as fast as the fastest jet ever created.
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