Alpha's Science Quiz #3

[alphamale]

You are an astronaut. There are two satellites in the bay of the shuttle. The ejection mechanism has broken, so you have to push them both out. Sat A weighs 1 ton on earth, and Sat B weighs two tons. You have your feet attached to the massive shuttle, so you don't have to worry about recoil of your body. You have to get both satellites going at a relative speed of at least five miles an hour. Which is harder to shove, Sat A or Sat B?

[erimir]

Satellite B.

Inertia is still inertia in space - it takes more force to get Satellite B to accelerate at the same rate.

[alphamale]

Correct. How long have you been in Sweden? I liked living there.

[JoeP]

The ejection mechanism has broken, so you have to push them both out.
Механизм отстрела ломал, поэтому вы должны нажать их оба вне.

[erimir]

Correct. How long have you been in Sweden? I liked living there.
2 months.

I don't have anything against Sweden, but I miss home and my friends, so I think I will be happy to get home when I do. But at some point I'm gonna have to leave college behind, and in that respect, Sweden seems like it would be fine (seeing as I'd miss my friends almost anywhere I went).

It's also been nice spending time with my relatives (my mom is Swedish).