• @[email protected]
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    922 months ago

    Gravity’s so powerful, it’s letting you win this round just to remind you who’s really in charge when you drop your phone

    • stebo
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      212 months ago

      The thing is, you need an entire planet to make falling hurt, and jumping is still easy. Meanwhile, if you have two tiny magnets they can pull on each other so strongly that you can never get them apart again.

    • @[email protected]
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      652 months ago

      Gravity ain’t shit. It’s not the falling that kills you, it’s the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    “Skiing is not hard, it’s mostly gravity.” - the alien on Resident Alien

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    As a kid I used to dream that I could levitate by sort of straining my muscles upward and lifting myself away from the ground. It would be pretty cool to do that IRL.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      I used to contemplate jumping in the air, then quickly using my foot to spring upward off of my other leg/foot, and repeating that until I’ve reached a desired elevation.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Funny, I had a similar series of dreams as a kid like that. I just sort of learned to ‘walk upwards’ and levitate.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Years before the books were written! I am an old :(

          But still, I’m sure it’s like riding a bicycle and I have these water balloons…

  • @[email protected]
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    Magnetic force is hilariously weak. Go ahead and raise your hand. You literally just over came the magnetic pull of the ENTIRE EARTH.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    72 months ago

    Not to “Ermmm acshually” but you haven’t overcome the gravitational pull you’ve just counteracted it.

    Overcoming it is significantlly more difficult.

    The swirly line forms to the left.

  • Optional
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    22 months ago

    I think this is a reprehensible attitude towards gravy.

    “Make gravy your bitch”; didn’t you ever enjoy a lovely meal with the savory sauce of gravy over biscuits or perhaps a meat of your choice?

    Terribly disrespectful!

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    And now jump in the air and escape the gravitational pull.

    12 kilometers straight up.

    1. 150 km.

    Gravity not so weak now, huh?

    • Comtief
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      12 months ago

      Also not so weak if you find yourself at a height in the air.

    • Miles O'Brien
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      52 months ago

      It’s still weak, just like humans are still slow.

      At least compared to other animals.

      But like gravity, we just keep going. And going. And going.

      And when the animals we hunted collapsed from exhaustion, we just kept coming. And then took it all the way back we came.

      Just like gravity.

      We can try to keep going until we just can’t anymore, but gravity will just grab us and haul us back.

      Compared to the other forces, gravity is a weak ass bitch.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    Nope. Gravity goes both ways. Actually it’s the curve of space time pushing you toward another mass. And you can only overcome because your mass is puny next to the earth.