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Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by dchest on Friday November 07, 2008 @05:14PM (#357162)
Yes, it's 4.815162, Lost numbers are 4 8 15 16 2[3 42].
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Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by hugh on Friday November 07, 2008 @07:36PM (#357280)
Ahhh, right, that explains it.

However, while I haven't watched every episode of Lost I think it'd be a lot more noticeable if gravity there was 4.815162 times regular Earth gravity. Everybody would be crawling around, for starters.

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Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by frisco on Saturday November 08, 2008 @08:27AM (#357536)
yeah, though the numbers don't seem to be multiples or constants (except for the death star one), they seem to be metric accelerations
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Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by hugh on Saturday November 08, 2008 @08:57AM (#357551)
Oops, you're right, I hadn't checked.

That'd make island gravity roughly half of regular Earth gravity.

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