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[asterroc]

A quick survey for those following along at home. Please complete the survey before checking others' responses or comments below.

[Poll #1817087]

Comments

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

Isn't gravity /gravitational pull what makes something orbit in the first place?

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

There has to be a story to go with this.

[best-ken-ever.livejournal.com]

Follow up question:

My guess is that the Apollo 11-17 astronauts experience a different sort of weightlessness as they left Earth orbit, traveled to the Moon, and entered Moon orbit. Am I right? Would they have been able to tell from one to the next?

[q10.livejournal.com]

i put ‘yes’, because that's why it's orbiting and because gravity is everywhere, but i think people who say ‘no’ probably mainly just mean that, relative to a frame of reference that moves with the ISS, gravity is not a force that's easily observed in the behavior of normal human-scale objects, as reflected in colloquial terms like ‘zero gravity’.

[meig.livejournal.com]

I said yes because, well, gravity is everywhere. As long as there is something with mass around, there will be gravity.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

Based on what you said about people getting this wrong, I think a lot of people parse "gravity" as "that sensation I feel when I'm falling to the ground", rather than "a force between any two objects". I'm not sure how you'd fix that impression, actually.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

I'm confused by what gravity being "used up" means. Can you elaborate on that concept?

[tiurin.livejournal.com]

"Heavy boots"