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
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
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)
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
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
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