if a roller coaster was transported to mercury or jupiter, which planet would it most likely be more thrilling
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If earth's gravity is 1, Jupiter's gravitational pull is 2.64 times that of earth, So the fall would be much faster. The gravitational pull on Jupiter is over 2 and a half times stronger than Earth's. Imagine a roller coaster falling twice as fast!\n  \nThe gravitational pull of Mercury is .38 times that of earth. \nOn Mercury the gravity is so small that the fall would have to be about three times as long to get the same speed as on Earth.
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Saturn.\n\nJust kidding.  It's Jupiter.
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An ion engine will get you there the fastest. You get the biggest delta-vee per kg of exhaust. \n\nProblem is, in general you only get one encounter with a specific planet once each solar orbit, and you can only get a kick so large each time. I suppose you can hypothesize a super convenient planetary alignment that could shave off some time, but you might spend a long time waiting for that particular configuration.  A lot of really smart people spent a lot of time developing the computational tools to come up with the VEEGA and VVEJGA options.  I doubt the population here is going to come up with anything a lot better.\n\nYou can read more about the DS1 ion propulsion experimental system here:\nhttp://nmp.nasa.gov/ds1/tech/ionpropfaq.html\n\nThe first science mission using ion propulsion is the Pluto bound New Horizons.  Thanks to this tech, it will reach pluto in 10 short years and reaches Jupiter for a gravity assist in only 1 year.\n\nhttp://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.html
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My guess would be Pluto
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Nah, there's nothing out there. It would take too long to travel to any of the planets. By the time I got to Jupiter I would be wearing diapers and being fed Geritol through an IV everyday.
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Highest on Pluto and lowest on Jupiter. \n\nOK, Pluto isn't a planet any more, but you did say bodies and not planets. OK, Jupiter has no solid surface, at least not until thousands of miles down in the planet. OK, on a small asteroid you could jump higher than on Pluto. In fact,on a small enough asteroid you could jump off it and never fall back because you have exceeded escape velocity. So highest would really be from any of millions of asteroids or meteoroids. But I digress.
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That's two questions.  Please ask the second in the section where it belongs, so we don't have to lose 2 (or 12) points just because you're lazy.\n\nOldest OUTdoor operating roller coaster:\n"Rutschebahnen" - Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark\nConstructed 1913 (CNN source is wrong - see correction below)\n\nFirst INdoor coaster: Space Mountain, Disney World's Magic Kingdom. 1975  (As much as I hate quoting Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_roller_coasters )\n\np.s. Confirmed that CNN is wrong by visiting a more authoritative source, The National Amusement Park Historical Association. http://www.napha.org/faq.html#WORLD'S%20OLDEST%20OPERATING%20ROLLER
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roller coasters\ncotton candy\nferris wheel\nwater slides
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i suppose a planet.cause it is denser then asteroids
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Callisto because it has a thin atmosphere and Philip K. Dick wrote about people who lived on it as well as Ganymede.  He didn't make it sound like it was much fun.\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/jupiter/moons/callisto.html\n\nBut there are so many to choose from.
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In the absence of the other planets, we would be the meteorites and asteroids favourite whipping boy, in 95-96, Comet Shoemaker Levy was feared to be on a head on course with Earth, it slammed into Jupiter. Also, many religions would go haywire since there are religious beliefs associated with the observance of some planets. Space travel would also be difficult, the Voyagers and the Pioneers are now at the edge of the Solar System only because they were accelerated by the gravitational field of the outer planets.
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no. mercury is too small to have a powerfull enough pull to hold an atmosphere
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Mercury actually does have an atmosphere but the planet's small size makes it hard to retain.  It is not stable.
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With no solid surface for either of these planets, an 'earth'quake would not happen in the traditional sense.  I am sure that there must be some incredible turbulence throughout the entire fluidic interior of the planets, and especial with Jupiter, the core may be solid and made up of metallic hydrogen.  I expect when comet Schumaker-Levy 9 slammed in to Jupiter, it must have set of some tremendous shock waves, but the planet aborbed it with barely a flinch.
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theoretically, you would oscillate back and forth until friction slowed you down enough to come to a rest at the center of the earth.  it could be six flags newest attraction!
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Of the 4 you present, Saturn, the furthest from the sun, appears to move slowest ON AVERAGE.  This ignores the fact that Mercury appears to stop entirely twice in its orbit since we're looking at it from outside its entire orbit.\n\nPluto would take honors of all the planets even though it is closer  than Neptune for part of its orbit.....
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Venus.  \n\nIt is the second nearest planet to the sun and due to its atmosphere full of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, it has the ability to trap heat.  So, basically, major global warming is taking place on Venus.\n\nAlthough Mercury is nearer to the sun, its atmosphere is weak and contains sodium, potassium and oxygen.  These, when exposed to the sun's rays, are lost/decomposed.  Therefore, there is not much atmosphere left to trap the heat, leaving it cooler than Venus.