Comment by xnorswap
8 days ago
It won't get you to the moon, but you can squeeze out a little more distance by arranging them corner to corner.
8 days ago
It won't get you to the moon, but you can squeeze out a little more distance by arranging them corner to corner.
We must either increase the production rate of T480-size thinkpads by around 9x or get Lenovo to release at least one special edition extreme widescreen thinkpad specialised for lunar round trips
Or move the moon closer.
Unfortunately the moon is moving farther away, and robbing the earth of rotational speed in the process.
That sounds even more plausible.
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Tarifs.
The widescreen is just one of the things the people buying old computers are trying to get away from!
Corner to corner with their hinge opened to 180°
Exactly. We can also win a tiny bit of the distance by assuming the Moon in the perigee, where the distance to the Moon is about 363000 km. I also assume that these distances are measured between the centers, so we can perhaps subtract twice the Earth radius (about 2*6400 km).
Call that tip to tip efficiency ;)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwYxLaaQ5s (reference - which really fits this whole thread)