Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
My son (5y) asked me today: If there were a kind of a fireman’s pole from the Moon down to the Earth, how long would it take to slide all the way from the Moon to the Earth?
We can picture what the child was thinking, but to be quite accurate, Munroe first had to go through the reasons we can’t install a fire pole between the earth and the moon. Then he discarded those reasons in order to answer the question about a fire pole that existed anyway. The first problem is that if you are standing on the moon, you have to go up the fire pole first.
If you climb up the pole far enough,…
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