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

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[–] [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.