jiroscop

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« : 02-06-2009 19:43 »
« : 02-08-2009 17:12 »
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Good news, everyone  A newbie on the horizon!! I just finished episode 72 and I am happy Futurama junkie now  Here is a question for you. Fry was frozen in the cryogenic chamber in the first seconds of the year 2000. The timer was set for 1000 years and yet he woke up in year 2999 around 6 pm(it was still daylight), six hours before midnight. Was the timer on the chamber wrong or is there something else?? I know the writers sacrifice consistency for the comic effect but I think they got it right(intended or not). As we now know the Earth orbiting speed is decreasing. Actually we added 1 second at the end of the 2008 for that reason. If that trend keeps progressing, in 1000 years we may add 5-6 hours of slowing behind the regular Gregorian Calendar used in the cryogenic chamber. Maybe the earth speed is even more slowed by alien bombing and other events between 2000 and 3000. What do you think?
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jiroscop

Poppler

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« #6 : 02-07-2009 10:38 »
« : 02-07-2009 10:43 »
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It might have been going in 1000 years worth of time. You'd have to add in leap year, daylight savings etc.
That doesn't explain only 6-7 hour difference. The clock in the tube is set in Gregorian Calendar like any PC. The mean gregorian year is 365.2425 compared to the mean tropical year (365.24219). That gives us 0,3 days error per 1000 years. But that's 0,3 days more so Fry would woke up about 7:12am in January 1st 3000(if the future people corrected the error, like pope Gregory did by dropping 10 days, to bring the calendar back into synchronization with day/night cycle). So there are 2 possibilities: 1. Slowing down of the Earth orbiting speed around the sun( Nuclear war???) 2. The clock in the tube is faster then normal. 7 hours difference in 1000 years for an electronic clock is unbelievable accuracy  Another question: How many years Fry spent in stasis?
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gudbjorg

Liquid Emperor
 
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« #14 : 02-09-2009 10:03 »
« : 02-09-2009 10:09 »
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It might have been going in 1000 years worth of time. You'd have to add in leap year, daylight savings etc.
That doesn't explain only 6-7 hour difference. The clock in the tube is set in Gregorian Calendar like any PC. The mean gregorian year is 365.2425 compared to the mean tropical year (365.24219). That gives us 0,3 days error per 1000 years. But that's 0,3 days more so Fry would woke up about 7:12am in January 1st 3000(if the future people corrected the error, like pope Gregory did by dropping 10 days, to bring the calendar back into synchronization with day/night cycle). So there are 2 possibilities: 1. Slowing down of the Earth orbiting speed around the sun( Nuclear war???) 2. The clock in the tube is faster then normal. 7 hours difference in 1000 years for an electronic clock is unbelievable accuracy 
Another question: How many years Fry spent in stasis?
So you already had an answer but wanted to see how helpful we truly are? You're nice. 7. It's acceptable to call the Atlantic Ocean the Atlantic Sea. A) True B) False
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Einahpet

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« #19 : 02-09-2009 21:27 »
« : 02-09-2009 21:38 »
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This my geeky question would be 'What if Fry dimensionally went back in time to kill his great grandfather but accidentally killed himself and real life (dimensionally) killed himself? Answer Please, if u can answer it! Beat that everyone!?!?!?!?! P.S. I'm cleverer than u think! 
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hobbitboy

Sir Rank-a-Lot
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« #25 : 07-01-2009 14:02 »
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Ooh, I have another (unrelated) geeky question.
Why, in God Fellas, can't the Planet Express ship catch up to Bender after he's been fired out of the torpedo tube?
i) If the ship needs the power of its engines just to maintain its current speed than what 'maintains' Bender at the speed he is going at? Or, to put it another way, if cutting the engines would cause the ship would slow down then why doesn't Bender, who has no engines, also slow down?
(Note: On earth, gravity drags projectiles into the ground long before air resistance brings them to a halt but if we could somehow have air without gravity (or a curved earth) we would see that bullets (etc.) would behave like they did at the end of the Matrix; they would slow down and eventually just stop, (much like they do when fired into water) 'hanging' in the air where they are. So if there's something that acts like friction when you're travelling at Planet Express ship-like speeds which requires powerful engines just to prevent you from always slowing down then why doesn't it act on Bender the same way it seems to act on the ship?)
ii) If things in space retain their current speed and direction unless they are acted on by some force (causing acceleration or deceleration, i.e., the way things work in the universe according to our current understanding) then why can't the ship run the engines a bit longer to get a bit faster and (eventually) catch up with Bender?
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Svip

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« #26 : 07-01-2009 14:11 »
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Ooh, I have another (unrelated) geeky question.
Why, in God Fellas, can't the Planet Express ship catch up to Bender after he's been fired out of the torpedo tube?
i) If the ship needs the power of its engines just to maintain its current speed than what 'maintains' Bender at the speed he is going at? Or, to put it another way, if cutting the engines would cause the ship would slow down then why doesn't Bender, who has no engines, also slow down?
(Note: On earth, gravity drags projectiles into the ground long before air resistance brings them to a halt but if we could somehow have air without gravity (or a curved earth) we would see that bullets (etc.) would behave like they did at the end of the Matrix; they would slow down and eventually just stop, (much like they do when fired into water) 'hanging' in the air where they are. So if there's something that acts like friction when you're travelling at Planet Express ship-like speeds which requires powerful engines just to prevent you from always slowing down then why doesn't it act on Bender the same way it seems to act on the ship?)
ii) If things in space retain their current speed and direction unless they are acted on by some force (causing acceleration or deceleration, i.e., the way things work in the universe according to our current understanding) then why can't the ship run the engines a bit longer to get a bit faster and (eventually) catch up with Bender?
I think you are threading the wrong mill here. Bender's real problem in this case is that he is going faster than the top speed of the ship. It simply cannot go faster. Boom. But the real issue with this is that it, in itself, is a joke/reference to Einstein's law of relativity as well as the discussions about the speed of light being the highest possible speed reachable. Consider this. If you are travelling at the speed of light. And you throw a Bender doll straight ahead of you, and it starts to travel faster than you. Would this even be possible? Also, I don't get why you are talking about air. Bender is in vacuum. There is no friction. He attempts to loose his momentum, but by then, he is already too far away from the ship, at which point Fry and Leela have already given up.
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coldangel

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« #27 : 07-01-2009 14:22 »
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The PE ship's engines aren't a traditional reaction mass arrangement. They're shifting the Universe around the ship through some kind of magic quantum entanglement arrangement which seems to have a top speed. Firing Bender out of its Alcubierre bubble turns him into a relativistic projectile. And since the PE ship has been seen to traverse the Universe in a matter of days, Bender's traveling probably thousands or millions of times the speed of light in real-space (apparently possible in the Futurama Universe, though a realistic depiction would have had all light in the Universe coalesce into a single point in front of Bender, and the wavelengths would shorten relative to him due to his velocity and strike him as hard gamma radiation. This is not shown - he is able to view the Universe normally). Also: It's a cartoon! 
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