If you were to stretch a pipe around the whole world, would it bend around or would the ends stick off the earth?
2006-06-29 14:13:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Your question doesn't make sense. If you were to stretch a pipe around the world, it would have to be bent. Otherwise it wouldn't stretch around the world.
2006-06-29 14:15:52 · answer #1 · answered by Obeast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the pipe. A pipe with a length equal to the circumference of the earth is going to be effected by gravity. No material made by man is going to be able to withstand that much force, and so it will bend around.
But if you made it out of the stuff in a neutron star, then it would collapse in on itself in a ball and then pull the earth into it.
Somewhere in between you might find some exotic material that could stay straight, but I wouldn't count on it.
2006-06-29 21:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by Waynez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bend around.
2006-06-29 21:16:09 · answer #3 · answered by mustanglady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uhh.. the pipe would bend around. If you bent it around the earth, that is.
2006-06-29 21:15:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strange question. Depends on what the pipe is made of, I'd guess.
2006-06-29 21:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
News flash! The world is generally thought now to be round.
2006-06-29 21:16:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of pipe?
2006-06-29 21:15:44 · answer #7 · answered by citizen ex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would just bend around.That is crazy.
2006-06-29 21:15:13 · answer #8 · answered by Sophia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what kind of pipe is that??? give me a break....
2006-06-30 04:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by oons_d_1022_pu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y O DUDE,THE CORRECT ANSWER IS 42
2006-06-29 21:18:54 · answer #10 · answered by kjm06492 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋