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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really depends on how low you are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And if whatever sheared off the part of the spaceship/satellite changed it's momentum. If I'm on a space station, and fling something directly towards the earth, from my perspective it will fall directly towards earth for quite some time (probably out of eyesight) before the orbital movements make it behave in odd (compared to on-the-surface) ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, flung not falling then? Until it enters the atmosphere and it's forward speed gets breaked down I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much drag can you get in orbit lol?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

drag in orbit? 0, microgravity that pulls on everything even in high orbit? yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is this microgravity?

I mean the earth pulls with its gravity, and your vessel/satelite overcome that by being in orbit. Something coming lose will just stay in orbit too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Keyword here is eventually. Sure it will, but what it definitely will not do is accelerate towards planet earth at what looks like 9.81m/s². AKA falling.