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jimlongley wrote:

Dave2 wrote:

jimlongley wrote:

george wrote:Are you confusing mass and weight, Jim?

Not unless I have made a massive error.

Really? Puns at a time like this? You fail to understand the gravity of the situation.

I felt, for some unknown reason, as if I was drawn to it.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Dadtodabone wrote:I'll go with Penny, I love Fig Newtons.

I'll go with Penny for almost any reason whatsoever.

Steve133 wrote:This discussion has officially passed the threshold of conversations that I can meaningfully participate in on my phone during quick breaks at work, so I'll limit my response to the following for right now:

fizteach wrote:I don't think the M4 would be classified as a black body.

Great discussion. Let's talk about some more physics

Dude, I was a physics major. EVERYTHING (stars, trains, horses, M4s, etc.) is a spherical blackbody in a frictionless vacuum. And all constants are some power of ten multiplied by "about 3".

The "spherical cow" approach is close enough for government work, and certainly close enough for Internet spitballing about guns in space.