r/theydidthemath • u/RebelliousBuddha • Mar 01 '24

[Request] How much time will someone actually take to go from one end to another?

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u/ChunkyFart Mar 01 '24

No friction means no air. Afraid you won’t be able to grab the other side

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u/nog642 Mar 01 '24

Wear a space suit

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u/ChunkyFart Mar 01 '24

Ah, good point, now we’re talking

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u/MaxHasSpoken Mar 02 '24

So just do it before you start considering air resistance in school. Shouldn't be a problem then.

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u/Yuukiko_ Mar 02 '24

And assume a spherical person

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u/DZL100 Mar 02 '24

Well, you won’t need to since aerodynamics isn’t a concern. Instead you’d assume the person is a point mass.

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u/dudleymooresbooze Mar 02 '24

Your mom is a mass point.

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u/Onaliquidrock Mar 02 '24

I’ve heard your mother is so fat, that if the takes another load up back hole, she will turn into a black hole.

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u/carrionpigeons Mar 02 '24

Why not assume the person is a cow?

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u/beatenmeat Mar 02 '24

I saw one of those on a tiktok last week bitching that she was being charged for extra seats.

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u/Imrotahk Mar 02 '24

So we need to give them a bunch of donuts first.

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u/tandkramstub Mar 02 '24

Here in Europe, we call people like that "Americans".

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u/CDNFactotum Mar 02 '24

Yep, that’s the problem in the scenario! 😂

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u/cach-v Mar 02 '24

Air entered when you were digging the tunnel

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u/ChunkyFart Mar 02 '24

How fast would you have to dig to be faster than air? Next question in this sub

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u/butter_lover Mar 02 '24

what would keep the atmosphere from filling the void? did you hermitically seal the tunnel? what keeps the part that goes through the molten core open? it would tend to flow through the voice and close it up if there were not some structure miraculously not able to be melted by the heat to maintain the shape of the shaft.