Tag: gravity

72 How to harness Jupiter's gravitational energy? 2016-11-02T14:58:14.213

58 Would the human body support living on planets with a greater gravity than Earth? 2014-09-17T11:45:05.767

54 How would people conceivably escape a planet too large for chemical rockets? 2018-02-12T23:05:55.413

44 What are the safety margins for destroying a planet from space? 2018-04-24T21:34:35.340

42 Could a cave-in or avalanche in low gravity be dangerous? 2018-04-09T14:16:22.700

40 Is there a working law of gravity in 2D? 2016-03-03T14:01:35.927

36 What are the effects of slicing the Earth in half with a particle beam? 2018-07-13T19:01:19.113

34 Why are low gravity humans depicted as TALL? 2016-06-05T12:53:02.433

33 What would the problems with / consequences of a torus shaped planet be? 2014-12-13T18:43:27.673

33 How many pillows would you need to survive a fall from a church tower? 2020-01-06T18:56:43.713

32 Gravity on a Minecraftian world? 2015-03-20T23:43:20.120

31 A planet rotating twice per second; what mass is needed to hold it together, and how oblate would it be? 2017-01-17T17:03:58.260

30 Can airborne floating/flying islands be scientifically possible? 2016-01-17T06:51:24.520

30 Lopsided artificial gravity 2017-12-11T17:24:34.960

29 5km artificial planet, with same gravity as on Earth 2018-07-04T17:31:04.250

28 How much gravity should I have on my spaceship? 2018-01-02T14:11:09.040

28 How likely are Coriolis-effect-based quirks to develop in starship crew members? 2019-05-08T11:50:28.650

27 A planet with changing gravity? 2015-06-09T16:11:52.310

27 Could you fall off a planet if it was being accelerated by engines? 2019-06-27T08:16:18.943

25 What would birds look like if they used buoyancy to fight gravity? 2019-01-18T16:18:19.897

24 What minimal radius is needed for rotation to simulate gravitation without adverse effects on humans? 2014-10-11T09:01:58.927

24 How would the human body develop under a different gravity? 2014-11-07T14:42:44.510

23 How big can a moon be where you can physically jump out of its orbit, to its planet? 2015-09-30T13:50:21.837

23 What could cause an entire planet of humans to become aphasic? 2019-02-22T10:16:00.823

22 What happens if everything stops? 2014-12-12T16:18:30.860

22 Extremely small planet to live on 2017-02-17T12:41:41.477

22 How to put a lake on the ceiling? 2018-02-12T20:01:43.483

22 Gravity magic - How does it work? 2019-03-15T07:03:58.290

21 1 Light Year Diameter Planet 2016-03-14T12:34:52.977

20 What factors determine a planet's gravity? 2014-09-18T08:36:44.240

20 How could a smaller planet than Earth have a higher gravity? 2014-12-07T09:23:54.577

19 Is there software to help me model tides? 2018-09-25T13:59:41.310

19 Why limit to revolvers? 2019-07-13T08:27:14.420

19 A continuous water "planet" ring around a star 2019-08-12T06:36:00.067

18 Making the Enterprise Fly 2014-10-07T11:49:35.957

18 What would the Universe be like if gravity was slightly stronger? 2014-10-19T18:10:59.857

18 How small could an Earth-like planet be while still realistically being able to sustain human life? 2015-02-09T03:02:38.353

18 Is a moon inside a hollow Earth possible? 2015-10-12T13:00:19.140

18 In a world with escape velocity greater than the speed of light, would a civilization be able to reach space? 2016-03-13T18:25:49.817

18 Gravity alteration as extermination tool viable? 2019-03-13T07:22:20.113

17 How would long-term exposure to artificial gravity (as generated by a Stanford torus) affect human evolution? 2014-11-14T12:09:57.657

17 Gravity and Architecture 2015-10-13T19:57:28.763

17 What would happen if the black hole at the center of a galaxy was removed? 2016-01-08T18:58:05.290

17 Physics Plus: Artifical Gravity in Space 2016-10-12T15:44:16.783

17 Would trams be workable on a low-gravity world? 2018-03-14T23:01:04.897

17 Doomsday-clock for my fantasy planet 2019-04-08T07:13:45.583

17 Higher Gravity vs Higher Air Density 2019-11-11T00:12:07.680

16 What would happen to the Earth if Gravity disappeared? 2015-07-14T21:15:12.073

16 Storms on a low-gravity planet 2015-10-21T14:34:21.713

16 As we increase the size and mass of a world, at what point does it become impossible for a rocket to achieve an orbit or escape velocity? 2016-04-18T00:18:17.860

16 How does gravity affect evolution of life? 2016-09-28T13:19:53.327

16 What could be the cause of a disease that makes someone or something fall towards the sky? 2017-05-24T12:10:34.987

16 Would an object float in mid air at the center of mass of a planet 2017-07-04T09:01:10.053

15 What effect would a radical gravity change have on plants and fungus? 2014-09-23T10:24:48.087

15 Human/mammal growth on Mars 2014-09-23T12:49:53.083

15 How fast would one have to move to climb up falling debris? 2015-04-25T05:13:09.157

15 Does Earth Have What It Takes to Have Rings? 2015-10-16T22:27:10.813

15 Aritifical Gravity through Rotating wheel generalisation in a spatial 4th dimension 2018-09-04T10:19:14.267

14 Would gravity be constant inside a Bernal sphere? 2014-10-09T11:11:24.390

14 Building a (solid) ring around the earth 2014-12-19T12:20:54.090

14 Internally consistent grav-plating 2016-09-26T21:12:44.867

14 Do the moons of Mars have enough gravity to colonize? 2016-12-16T14:18:29.950

14 Can an interstellar body alter Earths Time? 2017-02-14T02:51:05.147

14 Could a robotic exoskeleton give humans Earth like movements on a high gravity planet? 2017-04-26T17:32:13.207

14 Junkyard planet trash distribution? 2018-03-07T19:41:04.130

14 How large can surface gravity anomalies grow before the planet becomes uninhabitable? 2018-04-18T18:34:41.090

14 Plausible hypothesis on why gravity might fail on earth 2018-08-09T19:06:22.220

14 Would weights in clothing be an adequate way to compensate for low gravity? 2018-09-10T07:06:35.167

14 Would a high gravity rocky planet be guaranteed to have an atmosphere? 2019-03-27T21:23:32.160

13 What could cause infertility between humans living in gravity and humans in space? How could that cause speciation? 2014-12-04T20:21:24.247

13 I would like a levitating temple on a mountain. Hand-wave free...ish 2015-10-14T15:53:26.960

13 What would the effect of variable gravity strength have on a developing child? 2017-02-27T01:40:07.980

13 Simulating gravity in a gravity-less universe 2018-08-02T14:28:21.830

13 Gravitational anomaly (Mascons) creating water-hills 2018-12-14T10:02:01.890

13 Gravity on an Orbital Ring 2019-09-10T23:27:12.600

12 Could there be a planet bigger than Earth, but with less gravity? 2015-03-06T00:32:16.160

12 Would aliens that evolved on low gravity planets be able to cope with Earth's gravity? 2016-07-19T06:37:51.333

12 What is the smallest planetary mass that can prevent 'me' from flying off into space? 2016-12-17T02:26:33.330

12 What are the consequences of using limited anti-gravity for steampunk-style airships? 2017-05-23T21:57:13.150

12 Could I manipulate gravity to make my spaceship move? 2017-07-06T22:46:49.673

12 Given our current knowledge of exoplanets, approximately how many planets have earth-like gravity in a galaxy the size of the Milky Way? 2017-07-13T01:43:17.817

12 Can the Sun lose enough mass that Saturn's current velocity becomes escape velocity? 2018-09-25T15:31:08.333

12 What would be some possible ways of escaping higher gravity planets? 2019-02-24T13:16:02.400

11 Could Mars-colonized humans survive a return to Earth? 2014-11-04T02:41:19.793

11 What form of anti-gravity is the most feasible? 2014-11-19T08:59:07.277

11 Air transport breaks down 2015-04-12T19:39:31.143

11 Minecraftian world; I punch a hole in it and jump, where do I fall? 2016-02-24T16:45:44.500

11 Smallest possible habitable planet? (also taking density into account) 2016-07-15T15:32:10.540

11 Technological adaptations for colonization of a higher gravity world 2016-07-26T18:45:54.750

11 Does gravity converge in a wrap-around universe? 2017-03-10T08:25:31.793

11 What would happen to a man-made orbital ring/belt, if a portion of it was destroyed? 2017-07-10T13:50:30.527

11 Can one or multiple moon(s) pull the sea around my planet? 2017-10-27T10:52:51.383

11 Humanoids in Super Earth 2018-04-23T19:40:45.290

11 How to increase a moon's gravity? 2019-02-01T02:46:52.400

11 Could gravitational lensing be used to protect a spaceship from a laser? 2019-04-04T15:21:38.970

11 Could a form of acoustic levitation be used as artificial gravity? 2019-05-14T20:00:21.937

10 Cluster of Black Holes around a Central Point 2014-10-17T01:10:08.220

10 If the gravity was half as strong, how would the enviroment change? 2014-10-28T03:52:31.760

10 How to avoid infinite gravity 2015-04-28T20:49:08.837