how long is a piece of string?

mukki

I am just sick of people asking me how long a piece of string is


does anyone here know?

MrJoeSoap

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No! it's a bit shorter
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MrJoeSoap

MrJoeSoap wrote:

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No! it's a bit longer.
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b0bsquish

easy its [SIZE=-1]double the length from one side to the middle!
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GLaDOS

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MrJoeSoap

Matt Holck

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What is a space elevator?

A space elevator (also called a space bridge, or a beanstalk) is a very long, very strong cable or ribbon. One end is anchored to the Earth's surface and the other end is attached to a satellite orbiting at a height of at least 20,000 miles (36,000 kilometers).

At this height, known as geosynchronous orbit, the satellite orbits the Earth at the same rate as the earth's rotation, so it stays over the same geographical point on the ground. Communications satellites are typically found in geosynchronous orbit.

note: the string would have to be tethered at the equator

Oman

the meaning of life is 42

MrJoeSoap

Oman wrote:

the meaning of life is 42

Nah, thats just the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Garlic and Cheese chips are the meaning of life.

Star Lord

MrJoeSoap wrote:

...and everything.

Therefor the answer to how long a piece of string is: 42

mukki

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Therefor the answer to how long a piece of string is: 42

thats brilliant thanks DamoElDiablo


now anyone know what units that is in, 42 what?

Star Lord

Thats a more complicated question for a much more powerful computer that I will design. I may need a few thousand years...

pd101

I measured a piece of string and it was 23cm

Oman

thats brilliant thanks DamoElDiablo

Damo? i was the one who said it in the first place. man you used to be cool


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mukki

Oman wrote:

Damo? i was the one who said it in the first place. man you used to be cool


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i needed confirmation, but yeah, thanks to you too i suppose

Star Lord

Oman you merely stated it was the meaning to life...

I said it's the answer to EVERYTHING.

The question then is what units of measurement?

Well folks, I have the answer.

A piece of string is 42 stri's long.

A stri is a measurement equal to 1/42 of the piece of string.

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Case closed, mods please lock...

*runs away*

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Can I say "Yore MA is a piece of string"?

I think thats a good answer!

Mr Magnolia

twice as long as half the length.

or

half as long as twice the length

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

I think thats a good answer!

You're on your own there.





How deep is half a hole?

mukki

Mr Magnolia wrote:

How deep is half a hole?

once apon a time a person was locked in a room with just a table and a mirror, no doors or windows
to get out.....

he looked into the mirror at therefection of the table and he "saw the table"
now the table was sawn (in two)
he got the 2 halves and made a w(hole)
then he just climbed out the hole

anyway back on topic, how long is a piece of string?

Star Lord

Mr Magnolia wrote:

How deep is half a hole?

How slutty is half a ho?

Mr Magnolia

MMMmmm half a ho

Zulu

mukki wrote:

I am just sick of people asking me how long a piece of string is


does anyone here know?

Twice the distance from the middle to one end. Simple really.

Black Swan

Stringing me along?

Matt Holck

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Star Lord

Holck you fraud, that's not string, it's cheese!

boneless

I've just standardised the length of a piece of string at 14.5 cm. There is a piece on it's way to that place in Paris to be put in a vacuum chamber for future reference. End of discussion!!

Star Lord

Dear sir boneless,

You have neither the authority or the cojones to pull off such a feat.

Not the bones. *cough*

Regards,

Me.

boneless

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Dear sir boneless,

You have neither the authority or the cojones to pull off such a feat.

Not the bones. *cough*

Regards,

Me.

Tis done none-the-less.... see my lawyers...


Man, it's great to be back in the Nest!!!

Matt Holck

To measure the solar year length, one can note the interval of time
between two passages of the sun past the same star in the heavens;
(for example, the period between two of its passages past one of the stars shown in figure 20.)

This would be the period of apparent revolution of the sun in the celestial sphere,
or rather
the period of one revolution of the earth in its orbit.
This period is called the sidereal year, because it is fixed by the stars.

In ancient times
as the stars could not be seen near the sun,
-the moon was used as reference.
Before sunset, the distance between the moon and the sun was determined.
After sunset when the star appeared,
-the distance between the star and the moon was measured.
Adjusting for the motion of the moon between the two measurements,
the arc distance between the sun and the star could thus be learned from day to day.

Edited from: http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/astro/newcomb/II.6.html

Capt'n Midnight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

To compare, the size of an atom is roughly 10^-10 m and the size of a proton is 10^-15 m. To imagine the Planck length: you can stretch along the diameter of an atom the same number of strings as the number of atoms you can line up to Proxima Centauri (the nearest star to Earth after the Sun). The tension of a string (8.9×10^42 newtons) is about 10^41 times the tension of an average piano string (735 newtons).

So a string is 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 01 meters long

Oman

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory


So a string is 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 01 meters long

thats what i've been trying to tell you

Matt Holck

so 10 dodeco meters

Matt Holck

guitar notes are changed by changing the length of the string through pressing the wire across a fret
these frets could be viewed as discrete steps

the guitar is tuned by change the tension of the string
if pressing and pulling the strings in the theory creates the modes to produce the subatomic particles,
that would be like changing the notes on a guitar

Star Lord

I've seen pieces longer than that... :eek:

Matt Holck

wave diagrams might help

Capt'n Midnight

DamoElDiablo wrote:

I've seen pieces longer than that... :eek:

So a string is 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 01 meters long

and visible light wavelengths are between 0.000 000 4 and 0.000 000 7 meters long, so if it was a string you saw then it was at least 10 ,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 times longer than a normal string. Must have been some sort of freaky super string and even then you'd need amazing eye sight

Or maybe it was just 10 ,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 pieces of string tied end to end ?

Matt Holck

HyperSpider

Star Lord

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Must have been some sort of freaky super string and even then you'd need amazing eye sight

Or maybe it was just 10 ,000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 pieces of string tied end to end ?

My bad, it wasn't a string it was a cord!:o

#include <string>
size_type length() const;

Capt'n Midnight

Matt Holck wrote:

note: the string would have to be tethered at the equator

handy, but not essential you can go off axis by quite a bit ( several 1,000 km ) without much problems

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

handy, but not essential you can go off axis by quite a bit ( several 1,000 km ) without much problems

All the way to the surface! Geostationary (just stick in a flexible joint if you've got your sums wrong & allow for wind resistance!:eek: )

Matt Holck

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

handy, but not essential you can go off axis by quite a bit ( several 1,000 km ) without much problems

it's 10,000 km from equator to pole

how many is several?

Capt'n Midnight

more than one, but less than ten

Matt Holck

my english teacher told me for essays
a couple reasons is 2
A few reasons is 3 to 5
and several is 6 or more

Capt'n Midnight

more to the point what did your maths teacher say ?

seraphimvc

Oman wrote:

the meaning of life is 42

someboady please explain to me:D wth is tat mean???

or i wont tell you the true answer!i just got it from my mighty wise grandpa!

Capt'n Midnight

seraphimvc wrote:

someboady please explain to me:D wth is tat mean???

or i wont tell you the true answer!i just got it from my mighty wise grandpa!

a race of vast pan-dimensional hyper-intelligent beings constructed the second greatest computer in all of time and space, Deep Thought, to calculate The Ultimate Answer to The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Distracted by a demarcation dispute with two philosophers, a "simple answer"[1] is requested. After seven and a half million years of computing cycles, Deep Thought's answer is: forty two.

"I think the problem is that the question was too broadly based"

"Forty two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

Of course to know what the question is you need another eight million years.

Star Lord

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Of course to know what the question is you need another eight million years.

Plus the time taken then to actually build the superior computer that Deep Thought drew up, and the time to run the programs/calculations!

Capt'n Midnight

DamoElDiablo wrote:

Plus the time taken then to actually build the superior computer that Deep Thought drew up, and the time to run the programs/calculations!

Sure the second one the mice ordered was nearly ready when Mr Dent arrived at the factory. Admittedly Mr Dent could have been late.

Green Giant

I would like to answer the string question à la Keith Duffy:


Now the answer is easy, i.e. not that difficult. A piece of string, i.e. an extremely thin portion of a thread-like object, goes from beginning to end, i.e starts at the start and ends at the end. The length of a piece of string varies, i.e. not every piece in the world is the same length. There is no definite and unique answer to the question, i.e. we will never know for sure exactly how long a piece of string must be to meet the definition of 'a piece of string'.
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