There is a minimum mass required to achieve spherical planet or moon shape, and I don’t know what it is, except that a recent discussion concerning a large asteroid remarked on the odd shape being due to having insufficient mass to make it a spheroid.
Now … don’t go provoking the crazed
That is why I have decided to request closure of the Brexit thread. I will start up again in here, a troll free zone. I can’t hack RosstheToss anymore. They are welcome to each other.
I am glad you can provide some answers 
. I will butt in if I have anything useful to say, but I think I am better off talking health rather than nerd stuff. On a 30 hour fast at the moment. Haven’t eaten since lunch yesterday and that was after an hour hard on the mountain bike. Starving.
Like you and probly everyone here I have always bought into the globe theory - but there are lots of q’s that make me wonder - like the temperatures at the ISS or the Van Allen belt - like how do you land a plane on a runway that is travelling at 1000 mph - Don’t you have any questions or have you got answers to all your q’s.
Don’t wanna hijack the RH - I’ll start another thread,
The crazy guys, salt / epsom / potassium / sodium bicarbonate, mix helps me to fast easier (could be psychological of course) for a couple of days at a time.
I am sure you will have plenty of input 
I suspect you weren’t even born in 1986, so I won’t make fun of your ignorance.
The Voyager aircraft flew from Edwards Air Force Base to Edwards Air Force Base with the flight ending in December of 1986. I was 43 at the time and followed the progress of the flight everyday.
…and there was NO REFUELING!
@asaratis Thanks for posting as I said “to my knowledge” .
I am happy to stand corrected it appears others thought it was a worthwhile thing to do.
In searching wiki, I also see that Virgin have re-run the trip in 2005 in under 3 days. “GlobalFlyer”
Interesting that the distances flown were so different.
GlobalFlyer
“The distance flown was determined to be 36,912 kilometres (22,936 mi)”
Model 76 Voyager
The aircraft flew westerly 26,366 statute miles (42,432 km; the [FAI]accredited distance is 40,212 km)
Ha Ha nose-ringed crusties. You Brits have a way with words. That’s right up there with sniveling little rat-faced gits.
Natural supplements are fine, but my remedies are ibuprofen for pain, diclofenac for inflammation. Tumeric is good for Indian food. Minimize watching the news for headaches.
I’m not sure how they measure the total distance flown. If it incorporates the altitude, then a higher flying plane will rack up more flying distance for any given ground path (traced directly beneath the aircraft).
An interesting link between the two feats is that Burt Rutan designed both of planes.
That makes sense, I haven’t been able to find the altitude of the virgin flight so can’t compare the two.
The plane also is travelling at 1000mph, plus or minus airspeed if the runway is aligned E-W.
The air also is travelling at 1000mph, otherwise all the things sticking out of the ground would be battered to hell by a powerful wind.
Therefore everything is moving at 1000mph … and nobody realises.
McDonalds drive thru never looked so tempting, double quarter pounder! Why not call it a half pounder or would that make you sound too greedy? I am only joking of course, I actually do have very good will power.
On my bike ride yesterday, I only managed a max HR of 163 and that was pushing as hard as I could. Garmin only gives me about a 3/5 on aerobic effort. The lactic acid gets me way before I get out of breath and by the way, I can comfortably hold a conversation with an HR of 160. Cycling uses the same muscles as skiing so I think I am in good shape for that. Not long now! 
The thing is, curcuminoids have been proven to work better than Ibuprofen for inflammation and with natural supplements instead of drugs, you are not stressing your liver. Medication is the biggest cause of non alcoholic liver damage. With drugs, you almost always swap one problem for another. Anyhow, how about finding the cause of the pain /inflammation rather than just treating the symptoms? It happens for a reason.
I will be watching this with great anticipation.
That is rather like the question, what if the earth suddenly stopped rotating? Would we fall off? No. We would just get winds of 1000mph because the atmosphere would still be rotating.
Luckily, I don’t have any chronic pain. When I get it, I pretty well know what happened, like a bruise or a burn. The one recurring thing I’ve gotten is plantar fascia, and after getting it fixed several years ago it’s come back a couple times. The foot stretcher and diclofenac made it go away in a couple days. That feels like a spike in the heel.
Was that a result of an injury or did it just appear, originally? Are you otherwise all healthy? Do you have any allergies?
My heart rate would get to 163 just putting the skis on 
Couple of months away maybe unless global warming prevents it from snowing this year 
Playing tennis. I went several weeks thinking I had a bone spur in the heel, until I told a friend about it and he immediately said “that’s plantar fasciitis.” Sure enough, a foot doctor knew as soon as I described it, too. Yes, no complaints. I’m allergic to pollen, but my hay fever has moderated as I got to be a geezer. And penicillin, when I was a kid I had appendicitis, my appendix burst and I spent a week getting saturated with it. That’s probably how I developed an allergy to it. Ten years later I got a strep throat and discovered I was allergic to it.
I must have inherited good genes - my diet mostly consists of things you can shoot or club to death, I won’t touch fish or salad, yet my blood pressure is still 120/80, plus or minus. I live in fear that some doctor will tell me I’ll die if I don’t eat fish. I’ll just welcome hell at that point.
Fasciae (Don’t know if it’s correct Latin) have no nerve endings to feel pain.
Same goes for joints. When people say, they have a knee pain, it’s never the joint bones or cartilage (which have no nerve ending).
It’s always the muscles.