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EARTH SHATTERING FACTS ABOUT GRAVITY

Added on: 15th Apr 2016

 

 

BECAUSE OF GRAVITY, HUMANS GET THE URGE TO

PEE WHEN THEIR BLADDER IS ABOUT 1/3 FULL

Because of gravity, humans get the urge to pee when their bladder is about 1/3 full

 

 

IN SPACE, ASTRONAUTS DON'T HAVE THE URGE TO

PEE UNTIL THEIR BLADDER IS BASICALLY EXPLODING

In space, astronauts don't have the urge to pee until their bladder is basically exploding

 

 

EINSTEINS MOST REVOLUTIONARY EQUATION WASN'T

E=MC2 (UNLESS YOU ARE DESIGNING NUCLEAR BOMBS).

HIS MOST IMPORTANT EQUATION WAS G = 8 Pi T,

WHICH BASICALLY STATED THAT SPACE-TIME IS

CURVED AND NOT FLAT

Einsteins most revolutionary equation wasn't e=mc2 (unless you are designing nuclear bombs). His most important equation was G = 8 ð T, which basically stated that space-time is curved and not flat

 

 

HUMANS COULD SUCCESSFULLY COLONIZE AND LIVE

ON PLANETS WITH UP TO 3 TIMES THE GRAVITY OF

EARTH. AT 4 TIMES THE GRAVITY, HOWEVER, BLOOD

FLOW TO THE BRAIN WOULD BE IMPAIRED

Humans could successfully colonize and live on planets with up to 3 times the gravity of Earth. At 4 times the gravity, however, blood flow to the brain would be impaired

 

 

EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL PULL MAKES IT

IMPOSSIBLE FOR MOUNTAINS TO BE TALLER THAN

15KM (IN THEORY)

Earth's gravitational pull makes it impossible for mountains to be taller than 15km (in theory)

 

 

THERE ARE REGIONS IN SPACE WHERE GRAVITY

BETWEEN THE SUN AND EARTH (OR ANY OTHER

TWO OBJECTS) INTERACT TO CREATE SOMETHING

CALLED LAGRANGIAN POINTS. OTHER OBJECTS

CAN ORBIT AROUND THESE POINTS AS IF THERE

WERE SOMETHING THERE

There are regions in space where gravity between the Sun and Earth (or any other two objects) interact to create something called Lagrangian points. Other objects can orbit around these points as if there were something there.

 

 

BIRDS CANNOT BE TAKEN INTO SPACE BECAUSE

THEY REQUIRE GRAVITY TO SWALLOW

Birds cannot be taken into space because they require gravity to swallow

 

 

DURING THE FINAL APOLLO 15 MOONWALK,

DAVID SCOTT DROPPED BOTH A FEATHER AND A

HAMMER TO CONFIRM GALILEO'S THEORY THAT

OBJECTS FALL AT THE SAME SPEED REGARDLESS OF

THEIR MASS (ON EARTH THE FEATHER FALLS MORE

SLOWLY ONLY BECAUSE OF AIR RESISTANCE)

During the final Apollo 15 moonwalk, David Scott dropped both a feather and a hammer to confirm Galileo's theory that objects fall at the same speed regardless of their mass (on Earth the feather falls more slowly only because of air resistance)

 

 

JUPITER IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS A FAILED

STAR BECAUSE ALTHOUGH IT HAD ENOUGH MASS

TO PULL IN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF GAS, IT

DIDN'T GAIN ENOUGH TO START FUSION

Jupiter is sometimes referred to as a failed star because although it had enough mass to pull in a significant amount of gas, it didn't gain enough to start fusion

 


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