Guns in Space
There's more over on MinutePhysics' channel RIGHT HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN-FfJKgis8 Follow Michael Stevens: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce I'm pretty sure that subscribing to...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And what do you say we get outta here...to space and into an orbit. That way we could just float around and be free from the influence of gravity. Except not really. Astronauts orbiting around the Earth experience pretty much the same gravitational pull that you and I are feeling right now. The major difference is that those astronauts are falling, constantly, towards Earth, but their angular velocity is so large that they're falling just as fast as Earth curves away from them. Now, of course, this is nothing New...ton's Cannon hasn't already taught us. Gravity makes stuff fall and, in particular, Newton realized that it makes objects accelerate towards the Earth the same amount independently of how fast they're mov...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And what do you say we get outta here...to space and into an orbit. That way we could just float around and be free from the influence of gravity. Except not really. Astronauts orbiting around the Earth experience pretty much the same gravitational pull that you and I are feeling right now. The major difference is that those astronauts are falling, constantly, towards Earth, but their angular velocity is so large that they're falling just as fast as Earth curves away from them. Now, of course, this is nothing New...ton's Cannon hasn't already taught us. Gravity makes stuff fall and, in particular, Newton realized that it makes objects accelerate towards the Earth the same amount independently of how fast they're mov...
