These are the thoughts I have when I don’t get proper sleep
Yes, you just need a 1 metre long stick (I recommend birch, 1 cm thick for extra sturdiness but 0,5 is probably okay), a spacecraft and a lunar lander.
You can poke the earth with it too!
No, trees don’t grow that tall. You’d have to tape several sticks together.
I was picturing a bunch of trees bundled together like the giant poking device on Friends
Nope, but xkcd has an analysis on a similar question.
Reminds me of when I wondered about digging to the other side of the earth. Hypothetically, if the world were full of nothing but dirt and you could safely dig all the way through, would you feel a gradual shift from digging down to digging up or would it be sudden? The more I think about it, I think gravity would make it impossible to dig through the middle because it would be sucking the dirt in to a very dense ball. But I am no scientist
It’s weird, because gravity declines as you dig, so you would feel weightless at the center. But past the center, yes, you’d be digging “up”, and the dirt you dig would fall past you toward the center, the gravity pulling you down stronger as you neared the surface.
In any case, you’d need a way to remove dirt from the hole however deep you are.
If you wear a good pair of boots and a hard hat (safety first), you can just let the hole fill up behind you. You’re headed for the surface again, after all. Just be sure to bring enough snacks for the trip.
Hank Snow has done videos on this, short answer, no
The Fediverse, with one great voice, shouts “Hold Our Beers!”
I remember a question not exactly similar, but…
If possible to have an infinitely strong pencil, could someone near the sun witness a solar event and use the pencil to warn the earth before the event reached the earth.
I remember someone effectively saying “no” as the atoms of the pencil are not fast enough at translating the movement from one atom to the next in order for the information to actually make it to the other end before the solar event made it to the other end of the pencil as well.
don’t listen to the other liars, we can definitely make a stick long enough that you could poke the moon with it. It would just have to be constructed in outer space, stay in outer space, and you would never be able to actually use it to poke the moon from Earth…but it would be long enough!
Lemme unzip
