The red arrows indicate the unstable directions, and the blue, stable.
Posted on 02/24/2015 11:08:07 AM PST by Red Badger
A common enough misunderstanding. They actually originate from there.
There is!!! I saw it in a movie. Everything looks backwards like in a mirror.
What?!?
That's fine classical literature, man!
starring roy thinnes, from the invaders..i liked that movie
Bit of a sticky wicket eh???
Wasn’t there some earth chick that was transported there
too, besides nanzi pelousey...
Wrong on both counts. Gor and 50 Shades are both solidly accepted as crap. The only real difference is Gor is old crap way past its sell-by date and hard to find and 50 Shades is new crap and hard to miss.
Yes, L3 is stable, but not for anything near to Earth’s mass. We could put an artificial satellite there, and it would stay opposite to Earth, but anything much larger than that would quickly drift into its own orbit.
While I highly doubt the existence of another “Earth” on the other side of the sun, the explanation given does not hold water. That explanation would have to assume the other planets have no effect on “opposite Earth” and only affect this Earth.
In truth if there was another planet in some kind of synchronous orbit with Earth, the other planets would exert an equal and opposite action. Sometimes drawing it nearer and sometimes farther from Earth, not just always bringing them closer together.
Theoretically, there could be some such orb.
Them Priest Kings were always making “voyages of aquisition”...
Rat bastards.
>>Wrong on both counts. Gor and 50 Shades are both solidly accepted as crap. The only real difference is Gor is old crap way past its sell-by date and hard to find and 50 Shades is new crap and hard to miss.
LOL. I can’t be wrong for not sharing your opinion.
They went at night.
Thanks Red Badger. There is no counter Earth (we’ve had “far side” probes) but the article isn’t correct about much else. In the unlikely event that a planet of exactly the same mass were in the same orbit around the Sun, it wouldn’t necessarily over the long run gain or lose any more ground than Earth would from Jupiter — the author makes it sound otherwise. Presumably he didn’t think he had to think too deeply about something already known to be untrue.
It is also true that the “counter-Earth” has resulted in some atrociously bad science fiction shows. Have never read the Gor novels, although in my youth was a big fan of the cover art.
I think cuban leaf may be onto something though...
;’)
http://nineplanets.org/hypo.html
So if Michael Moore keeps gaining weight then Al Gore might enter in to a stable orbit 60-degrees away from him?
The red arrows indicate the unstable directions, and the blue, stable.
The only stable points are L4 and L5. However, we have (or will soon) put satellites at L1 and L2 for different experiments. They maintain their locations with thrusters.
I used to think there was nothing as big as Uranus....
Neither is opinion. You stated as fact that Gor is vilified and 50 Shades is mainstream. Neither is true, the fact is both are considered crap and neither is mainstream.
And yet, they are allowed to vote.
Really... have you actually seen it?
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