Please don't take this too seriously.

[Lorizael]

I'd swear I'd heard the surface gravity of the sun was 27 gees, though.

Hence the ~ in ~30 gees. It makes the relation nicer if it's 300,000 to 30. Another physics trick: approximate like ****.

[Lorizael]

Is this a coincidence of the numbers? I mean, I shouldn't expect double the radius to turn out so near double the surface acceleration, should I?

It is not a coincidence. That's why I didn't bother to use numbers in the proportionality explanation. For a given density, surface gravity is directly proportional to radius. It's the "for a given density" part that makes this perfect calculation not work in reality. There's no reason to expect the density to be the same and plenty of reason to expect it to be different.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Interesting. You explain this stuff well.

[notyoueither]

It is not a coincidence. That's why I didn't bother to use numbers in the proportionality explanation. For a given density, surface gravity is directly proportional to radius. It's the "for a given density" part that makes this perfect calculation not work in reality. There's no reason to expect the density to be the same and plenty of reason to expect it to be different.

Popcorn!

[Sava]

I don't know what is happening in this thread.

[Sava]

Oh. There was a whole 'nother page. That explains things.

[Elok]

I like how you reoriented this thread towards science and away from attempts to get you spilling your guts on lurid details of your personal life. That's Al's job, and we need to have distinct roles for different posters.

[Felch]

I like how a thread nobody was supposed to take too seriously has somehow snowballed into nearly 700 responses.

[ColdWizard]

Everybody likes Lori.

[Sava]

[Lorizael]

I like how you reoriented this thread towards science and away from attempts to get you spilling your guts on lurid details of your personal life. That's Al's job, and we need to have distinct roles for different posters.

Man, I hope you didn't read this whole thing.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Everybody likes Lori.

Same.

[Elok]

Man, I hope you didn't read this whole thing.

Oh, hell no. Just the last couple of pages.

[Lorizael]

Good. A brief summary: Lori went cray cray when Elok left Poly.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

He was pretty impossible about it.