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If You Jumped From The Floor And Somebody Catapult You In The Forehead With An Avocado Seed Would You Do A Backflip?
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Would the force on your forehead propel you in to a laudable backflip?
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Gravity on earth will win. After the force from you jumping up has dissipated gravity will push you down to Earth again. A sideways push from the seed will not have enough energy as gravity pushing down on you weight (body mass).
In space, gravity and weight and body mass and energy are all cocked up, so I wouldn’t like to predict what would happen in a space station.
Gravity on earth will win. After the force from you jumping up has dissipated gravity will push you down to Earth again. A sideways push from the seed will not have enough energy as gravity pushing down on you weight (body mass).
In space, gravity and weight and body mass and energy are all cocked up, so I wouldn’t like to predict what would happen in a space station.
Sunk, I'm not very clever but this is how I see it. If you're in space and think that there is no gravity because you feel weightless, you still have a mass which will keep you in the same place until a force obliges you to move. Your big mass will need a big force to make you move. A seed would be too feeble to give you a decent push. If you were in the space station and I flicked your cheek with a feather, you wouldn't suddenly whizz off.
Tilly; you tell me. You're the one who's expressing enough interest to flap your little thumb around the keypad.
Sunk; Arthur Mee'sChildrens' Encyclopedia - Candle fired from shotgun towards a stout wooden plank - candle pierces the plank neatly. Candle is pushed gently but firmly against the plank and candle slowly crushes. I never understood why that happens and I still can't explain it.
Sunk; Arthur Mee'sChildrens' Encyclopedia - Candle fired from shotgun towards a stout wooden plank - candle pierces the plank neatly. Candle is pushed gently but firmly against the plank and candle slowly crushes. I never understood why that happens and I still can't explain it.
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