And the way she dealt with the questions that resulted from this claim, was some funny stuff.
Sharon, if Ivo is from a planet the size of our Jupiter, how can they manage such crushing gravity there?
Jupiter has a gravity 2 and a half times greater than Earths. A 200 pound man would weigh about 500 pounds there.
And if the gravity is similar...how can that be so?
Ivo: We are less dense, (Sharon: they vibrate higher), therefore the gravity does not have a debilitating effect on us. This goes for everything on the planet as well. When we left Lyra we had a slight adjustment to make (we required a certain amount of time to acclimatize) because gravity fluctuates with the sun and the atmosphere of the planet. It is not a constant throughout the galaxy because of the effect the particular suns have on their planets.
Sharon: Does earth produce gravity?
Ivo: The determining factor is the atmosphere around the planet. If it does not have much of an atmosphere, there is not much to hold one to the planet's surface, such as your moon
So its the lack of atmosphere on the moon and not its mass that makes our astronauts bounce when they walk there.......
This highlights not just the fictional Ivos ignorance but Marions as well.
The facepalm is so strong in this one.
Sharon, if Ivo is from a planet the size of our Jupiter, how can they manage such crushing gravity there?
Jupiter has a gravity 2 and a half times greater than Earths. A 200 pound man would weigh about 500 pounds there.
And if the gravity is similar...how can that be so?
Ivo: We are less dense, (Sharon: they vibrate higher), therefore the gravity does not have a debilitating effect on us. This goes for everything on the planet as well. When we left Lyra we had a slight adjustment to make (we required a certain amount of time to acclimatize) because gravity fluctuates with the sun and the atmosphere of the planet. It is not a constant throughout the galaxy because of the effect the particular suns have on their planets.
Sharon: Does earth produce gravity?
Ivo: The determining factor is the atmosphere around the planet. If it does not have much of an atmosphere, there is not much to hold one to the planet's surface, such as your moon
So its the lack of atmosphere on the moon and not its mass that makes our astronauts bounce when they walk there.......
This highlights not just the fictional Ivos ignorance but Marions as well.
The Moon's Gravity - How much you would weigh on the moon?
Your weight on the moon is a function of the moon's gravity. First, we know that gravity is a force that attracts all physical objects towards each other (but why this happens is largely unknown!). Second, the greater the mass of an object, the stronger the force of gravity.
The moon is 1/4 the size of Earth, so the moon's gravity is much less than the earth's gravity, 83.3% (or 5/6) less to be exact. Finally, "weight" is a measure of the gravitational pull between two objects. So of course you would weigh much less on the moon. Imagine how far you could jump on the moon! The Apollo astronauts apparently had fun
The facepalm is so strong in this one.
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