Here's a pointless question...

I was just stood in the back garden and I thought "Bloody half five and
pitch black already!" which lead onto "How much longer could I make the day,
should I want to?".

I'll explain: given a large bike (to be a bit on-topic) and a suitably large
land mass, if I was to ride with the sun, as it were, the daylight would
last a bit longer, but how much longer before I ran out of land?

Further to that, if I rode from Cornwall, say, to Ramsgate at
I'm-gonna-die-if-I-hit-a-bee mph, how much more light would I get compared
to someone who stayed in Cornwall?

Si - Head hurting now

 

Take radius of earth, find circumference, you then know how quickly dusk is
moving (as the circum takes 24 hours). Go from there...

 

About 5 seconds at a guess.

 

The world is approx 25,000 miles circumference and a day is 24 hours, so
it rotates at over 1,000 mph.
This means you would have to do something close to 1,000 mph to keep up.

You're going the wrong way, you'll have less daylight

 

I'd need an R1i then?

I'd need an R1i with an Aldii GPSi then?

Si

 

Nooooooooo! Can't be arsed. That was the point of asking. Tch!

Si

 

Bugger. Um....I didn't say which way.

Si

 

Champ, actually ...

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=

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I wonder if any thought is ever original?

I also wonder if I am the first person ever to think "Does a marmoset ever
yearn for egg and chips?" ?

Si

 

Nope:

http://www.primatecare.com/cfood.htm

!

 

FMOB!

Si

 

Someone- I think it may have been Billy Connolly or Bill Bailey-
speculated on the subject of Original Sin.

"Ohhhhhh, bless me Father, I poked a badger with a spoon!"


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If you kept up with the speed of the shadow from Ramsgate to Cornwall
you would gain around 10 or fifteen minutes of daylight at a guess.

Not surprised, you were going the WRONG way

 

Hmmm... IIRC there's a clock in Oxford that rings 100 times at 9:05
every night, to signify it's 9pm and time for people to be back in
College (yeah right). The 5 minutes is because of Oxford being 5 minutes
behind Greenwich.

Let's think... if you were 15 degrees behind, you'd be 1 hour behind.
Does that sound right? 15 degrees * 24 timezones = 360 degrees. Yup,
sounds right.

So 1 degree would be one-fifteenth of an hour, ie 4 minutes.

Ramsgate: hmm, I think the easternmost point is actually at Broadstairs,
and I think it's called North Foreland. It's 1.45 degrees east.

Land's End: 5.72 degrees West. So difference is 7.17 degrees, just under
half a time zone.

So time difference should be 7.17 * 4 = 28.68 minutes.

So if you got a Star Trek teleporter and went from North Foreland to
Lands End, you'd get an extra 28 minutes 41 seconds of daylight.

Or you could ride 395 miles, but as you'd only have 28 minutes 41
seconds to do it in, you'd have to average 826 mph.

Or am I bluffing?


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Also depends on the time of year, but I couldn't be arsed to work all that
out.

 

If he would only bugger off to the top end of Norway, he could ride in
circles all summer long, and it wouldn't get dark.

 

It is, and quite posh it is too. With a lighthouse. Not that that makes a
difference. Or does it?

Sounds good to me! So at 82.6mph I, in theory, would gain 2.87 minutes?

Kewl.

Si

 

Are you trying to get rid of me?

Si

 

turn the bloody light on
then you are ok 'till yer 50p runs out
IMHO
nick>

 

Lowestoft Ness 1.46

Land's End..?

Ardnamurchan Point 6.13

That'll be 7.59; none of your 7.17 malarkey

How does 30.36 sound

That's almost 2 minutes difference

Yes, obviously