Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
LOL....don't count on me telling ANYONE in the politics section to chill unless some racial shit goes on. Now back to your corners and come out for a clean/or not/ fight........NOW LETS GET IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!:dance:

By the way, how are you people calculating the speed of gravity? Fact is, gravity works on a mass at a rate of 32.2ft/sec/sec and from there the only thing to take into consideration of a free falling object is the floatability (for lack of a better word). Kind of like comparing dropping a bowling ball as opposed to a feather or piece of paper. Or in the case of a falling building it may have resistance on the fall do to the building itself.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:
you are right p4b

but i was talking about, and gumby was tring to talk about
acceleration due to gravity (g)
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The acceleration that an object experiences because of gravity when it falls freely close to the surface of a massive body, such as a planet. Also known as the acceleration of free fall, its value can be calculated from the formula


g = GM / (R + h)2


where M is the mass of the gravitating body (such as the Earth), R is the radius of the body, h is the height above the surface, and G is the gravitational constant (= 6.6742 � 10-11 N·m2/kg2). If the falling object is at, or very nearly at, the surface of the gravitating body, then the above equation reduces to


g = GM / R2
In the case of the Earth, g comes out to be approximately 9.8 m/s2, though the exact value depends on location because of two main factors: the Earth's rotation and the Earth's equatorial bulge. The downward force of gravity is opposed by an outward centrifugal force due to the planet's rotation, which is greater at the equator than at a higher latitudes. (The centrifugal force is "fictitious" in the sense that the real force caused by rotation is the centripetal force; however, it is a convenient fiction for the sake of calculations.) By itself, this effect would result in a range of values of g from 9.789 m/s2 at the equator to 9.823 m/s2 at the poles. This discrepancy is further accentuated because of the Earth's equatorial bulge, which causes objects at lower latitudes to be further from the planet's center than objects nearer the poles and hence subject to a slightly weaker gravitational pull. Overall these two effects result in a variation of 0.052 m/s2 in the value of g, which leads to a variation in the weight of an object by about 0.5% depending on whether it is weighed at the equator or at one of the poles. Taking an average over the whole surface of the Earth, physicists have arrived at a standard value for g of 9.80665 m/s2. On other planets and moons the values of the acceleration due to gravity may be very different, resulting in different weights for the same object on these various worlds.