Posted on 10/13/2021 10:26:00 PM PDT by Trillian
True in the original live series but in the one season animated series done in the 1970s it did once I think.
On the down side, these advances also mean that Botswana can have intercontinental warhead delivery systems, should they choose to.
It was beautiful to see.
-—351,186 feet above Earth’s surface——
So that’s only about 70 miles. Where does space begin?
Is space different from outer space?
We can look to Shatner now as a mentor who follows Clint’s admonition and “Don’t let the old man in”
He was simply saying that the atmosphere and magnetic shielding generated by the Earth is an incredibly small layer that is completely transparent and delicate, yet, competently separates and protects all known life in the Universe from the dark, cold vacuum of space, which would mean death for all.
Even the light he was able to see permanently leaves the Earth, to never again provide its life-giving characteristic.
Einstein would disagree with you on this.
Why Free-Falling Makes You Weightless, Even In the Presence Of Gravity
"Broadly, most experts say that space starts at the point where orbital dynamic forces become more important than aerodynamic forces,..." (Nat'l Geographic)
Link to WTSP Article:
"Where Does Space Begin?
Thanks for that.....
He doesn’t even look 80.
I watched the post-flight interview at the launch pad on Daily Mail and they said something very interesting. On hitting the atmosphere, they said they suddenly took at least 5g and probably more. It tells me that they can’t launch the capsule any higher than they are now because the g’s would be too high when they hit the atmosphere. Flying any higher would require a completely different flight profile where they enter the atmosphere at a shallower angle.
On another note, does anyone know if the system has a launch abort capability? I didn’t see anything that stood out as one.
# In true outer space, people are far enough from the gravitational pull of the earth to be in true weightlessness.
Well, yes and no. Even folk in true orbit on the ISS are really not experiencing true weightlessness. They are still technically ‘falling’, though their path (hopefully) never actually loses height, because the combination of their speed and height equals the curvature of the earth.
The folks who went to the moon did actually experience true weightlessness, as they actually reached the point where the the earth and moon’s gravity were in balance.
You’re pretty much going to have =some= gravitational effects anywhere in the solar system, though you might not be able to actually notice it.
Remember the good old days when editors actually proof-read what was submitted?
I guess. I could tell he was profoundly affected, though. I would probably be like “That’s it? I was expecting more. I don’t suppose I could get my money back…”
As long as you hide the furniture before he shows up, so it doesn't get all chewed.
I don't mean to pile on (well, yes I do...) but you must realize that a body orbiting the Earth (like the International Space Station) is still fully under the influence of Earth's gravity, and so are the people inside. Both are just in a perpetual state of free-fall around the Earth, so their relative motion with each other gives the illusion of zero gravity.
Even the Apollo Astronauts who went to the Moon were under 99% of Earth's gravitational pull, which is why the Moon orbits the Earth.
Descending inside the fuselage of an aircraft is exactly the same as orbiting the Earth.
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True the experiments on the ISS and the old Sky Lab are technically done in micro gravity not true weightlessness. Been awhile but lots of old SciFi I read had centrifugal force used to add a bit of “gravity” for the human body and other things to work in true zero gravity.
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