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What is the smallest hill you would die on? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Best of all, that funny fraction isn’t even constant. The earth is a bit wonky.

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[–] notabot@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

We fix it with rockets. Circularize the orbit and set it to an integer number of days that's divisible by 28.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 points 1 year ago

Now that’s the kind of thinking we need more of! Mathematical precision is the way we run things around here. Screw whatever nature had intended for orbits and such. It’s our planet.

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