Poll: can we rappel from the moon?
i have under 100m of rope
11 /
27%
i have between 100 and 200m of rope
9 /
22%
i have between 200 and 300m of rope
9 /
22%
i have between 300 and 400m of rope
6 /
15%
i have between 400 and 500m of rope
4 /
10%
i have between 500 and 600m of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 600 and 700m of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 800 and 900m of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 900 and 1000m of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 1 and 2km of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 2 and 5km of rope
1 /
2%
i have between 5 and 10km of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 10 and 50km of rope
0 /
0%
i have between 50 and 100km of rope
0 /
0%
i have more than 100km of rope
1 /
2%
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qwert
Jan 20, 2008, 3:15 PM
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can we rappel from the moon? (that would be roughly 385 000km) if we combine all the climbing ropes of the rockclimbing.com users, would it be enough to rappel from the moon to the earth? post the combined length of your ropes and ad i to the pool. for example i start with 335m. the next one has only 50m. so post this, and ad it, like "i have 50m, so the total lenght is 385m" the next one has 500m, so he has to post "i have 500m, so that makes 885m total" and so on. and that we have something to control the result, click also your ropelenght in the poll. so to repeat: i start with 335m, wich makes a total of 335m qwert
scrapedape
Jan 20, 2008, 3:30 PM
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I have 120 m, so that makes 455 m. Are we allowing for knots? DFKs or EDKs. Either way, this is going to be a lot of knots to pass.
qwert
Jan 20, 2008, 3:38 PM
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yes, there need to be knots. however the facts that they need rope ist offset by the rope stretch, so we dont need to calculate them. we use EDKs because if you use a big 8 as rappel device, you can ssimply rap over them. qwert
binrat
Jan 20, 2008, 3:46 PM
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Ok, at work I have 1910 m, and at home I have 1057 for a total of 2967 m. Adding that to the 455 m puts it to 3422 m . I don't want to be the person that is moving it all into 1 place. Binrat
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Jan 20, 2008, 4:02 PM
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Well, my pale 330m of rope brings i to 3752m Wonder if sterlingjim and sterlingsonya will add to this? I'm sure that they'll add a buttload to our minuscule number.
microbarn
Jan 20, 2008, 4:29 PM
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I have 120m of rope bringing the total to 3872m
kachoong
Jan 20, 2008, 5:41 PM
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Another 170m here.... brings it to 4042m What about 3m of shoelaces made from 3mm cord? We could use that to make the ADT.
thomasribiere
Jan 20, 2008, 6:20 PM
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I have 70 > 4112 m. That's a rad thread!
notapplicable
Jan 20, 2008, 6:32 PM
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220 m + 4112 m = 4332 m
lena_chita
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Jan 20, 2008, 7:45 PM
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120 m+ 4332m = 4452 m
petsfed
Jan 20, 2008, 7:49 PM
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215+4452=4667m
rogue10186
Jan 21, 2008, 12:17 AM
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60m+4667=4727m
coastal_climber
Jan 21, 2008, 12:51 AM
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Is this a single or double line rap? >Cam
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Jan 21, 2008, 2:29 AM
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60m+4727=4787m. We're one eighty-thousandth of the way there!
petsfed
Jan 21, 2008, 2:38 AM
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Realistically, we'd only need 2.75e5 km of rope if we were rappelling from the moon. We'd have to climb the remaining hundred-ten thousand kilometers because the moon also has a gravitational field.
clausti
Jan 21, 2008, 3:52 AM
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4787+60=4 847 hey, i'm a poor student, i only keep one rope at a time.
j_ung
Jan 21, 2008, 2:35 PM
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+240m 5087
climb_eng
Jan 21, 2008, 4:53 PM
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240 for me (not sure why I own 3 9.8 mm ropes at 1 10.2 mm rope.... but I do). 5327
jmvc
Jan 21, 2008, 5:00 PM
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petsfed wrote:
Realistically , we'd only need ...
Wrong word for this thread I think..
jmvc
Jan 21, 2008, 5:02 PM
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5327 + 120 = 5447 Getting there..
grover
Jan 22, 2008, 12:39 AM
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5447 + 480 = 5927 Are we gonna subtract some length for the knots? As well, we should count the # of knots to be passed.
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pbnjonny
Jan 22, 2008, 4:04 AM
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5927 + 60 = 5987
robbovius
Jan 22, 2008, 12:17 PM
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pbnjonny wrote:
5927 + 60 = 5987
+180 =... um, wait a minute...carry the 1... 6167m
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dr_feelgood
Jan 22, 2008, 1:16 PM
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robbovius wrote:
pbnjonny wrote:
5927 + 60 = 5987
+180 =... um, wait a minute...carry the 1...
6167m \Plus 240 for me. So 6407
betaben
Jan 22, 2008, 3:03 PM
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+330M 6737M total