pooping on top of Mt.Everest vs in your basement, which is faster?

I have never seen the scales you talk about but mass affects gravity as Skazo noted and a large mass like Everest will affect the local pull of gravity. In general yes altitude will reduce the pull of gravity as you are getting farther from the center of mass of the earth (also keep in mind weight isn't exactly a determinate of gravitational attractions as things like air density affect how much force you are putting on a scale) but local fluctuations based upon geological composition other factors that increase mass are still present and the Earth is not a uniform smooth sphere which would be the case in Skazo's calculation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth

[rquoter]Local variations in topography (such as the presence of mountains) and geology (such as the density of rocks in the vicinity) cause fluctuations in the Earth's gravitational field, known as gravitational anomalies. Some of these anomalies can be very extensive, resulting in bulges in sea level, and throwing pendulum clocks out of synchronisation.
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FYI the wikipedia link addresses gravitational attraction on top of Everest as being .28% less than at Sea Level but that is not factoring the local mass of Everest.

Bottom line your poop may travel slower at the top of Everest but to accurately determine it you would still have to factor the local mass of Everest.

 

I am going to vote on who's poop gets to the ground faster and say, barring wind, your poop on top of Mt. Everest will get to the ground faster.

Even accepting that that the gravitational pull at the top of Everest is .28% less then it is at Sea Level the atmospheric pressure is on average about 33% less on top of the Everest than at Sea Level. This means that as your poop falls there is 33% percent less air resistance on your turd which I think would more than make up for the .28% difference in gravitational pull.

 

This is just an unnecessarily awkward question about gravitational potential.

Assuming that you are in a vacuum, so there is no wind resistance or any other factor in play other than the force of gravity. Given that two objects are the same size and dropped from the same height, one at ground level and one at the height equivalent to the peak at mount everest. The object at the top of mount everest would hit the ground first, but the difference would be almost negligible.

This is because the difference in gravitational potential at the top of mount everest and at ground level is really not all that much. Relatively speaking, that height is not really all that much when speaking on a grand scale. For you to really see a difference, you would have to be above the earths surface by 2 to 3 times the size of the earth's radius.

Just food for thought, the highest peak of Mt. Everest is only around 8.85Km. The radius of the earth on the other hand is around 6365Km give or take depending on where its taken from. So there is a massive difference.

 

Excuse me, I made a mistake its the other way around.

 

Trying to poop on top of Mt. Everest would be the last thing you ever attempted to do in your life.

 

Well its going on my bucket list now!

 

You're no fun. Why don't you go work on your abs some more.

 

It took Maria 10 minutes to launch a turd from Mount Everest. If she works just as fast, how long will it take her to launch another turd at the base of Mount Everest?

Answer: __ minutes