Android gravity constants

[Indivara]

Am I the last one to know that the Android SDK defines a constant[^] for the gravity on the first Death Star? Just noticed it today. I wonder whether that is the surface gravity. The gravity inside looked much higher (since people walked normally). There also are constants for other (real) planets.

[Bernhard Hiller]

public static final float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I Added in API level 1 Gravity (estimate) on the first Death Star in Empire units (m/s^2) Constant Value: 3.5303614E-7

Also interesting to note that the Empire now uses metric (SI) units. And where is the island which has about half of Earth's gravity?

[Richard Deeming]

It's allegedly the island from "Lost": http://www.geek.com/android/geek-humor-star-wars-and-lost-references-in-android-sdk-578164/[^]

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"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

[Sander Rossel]

I'm starting to wonder... That's no moon![^] :laugh:

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}

[Brisingr Aerowing]

:wtf: :doh:

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

[KP Lee]

Just out of curiosity (on win 8.1) I wondered if you could enter exponentials. I was gratified that typing 1e automatically changed to 1e+0, but worried if negative exponents worked. Nope, came out -6. Well how close is positive? Typing "1e7=" is 9999993 REALLY disappointing for a calculator (5 place accuracy), that here-to-fore I was very impressed with its accuracy. (Later I cleared memory and 1e7 gave the right answer. It assumed I wanted to subtract 7 from 1e7 or better yet: I wanted to add 1e7 to -7). The percentage of Earth gravity is about 0.0000036%. So 100 lbm weighs 0.000000036 lbf.(100kg WEIGHS 0.036gm*mm/sec^2 on the death star) I always assumed they could stand like they did because they had developed artificial gravity. Since the pilots could turn like they did without the pilots getting squished, I assumed their star fighters had it too. My calculator, using the link's numbers --> (((3.5303614/10000000)/9.80665)*100)= 3.5999667572514569195392922149766e-6% (Yes, parens shouldn't be necessary, but I proved to myself years ago it properly supported needed parens and that memory glitch scared me too.) So, where is half of Earth's gravity mentioned? PS I think my numbers are right, but I wouldn't bet 100 dollars on it.

[KP Lee]

Brisingr Aerowing wrote:

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

I think the answer to your question is "EXACTLY"!