How would you control your spin if there’s no air to push against? The ionosphere is so thin, it may as well be hard vacuum. until you made it to some place the air is thick enough to help control your rotation, once you start spinning, you can’t stop.
Yeah, we’re not a regular, balanced geometric shape. Without a tether or something to help stabilize against, every marginal push or pull (like gravity, or the marginal friction of the ionosphere) will tend to send us tumbling.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
How would you control your spin if there’s no air to push against? The ionosphere is so thin, it may as well be hard vacuum. until you made it to some place the air is thick enough to help control your rotation, once you start spinning, you can’t stop.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But why in the first place did he start spinning? The people they talked to were awaiting it and were suprised it didn’t come thru sooner.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Yeah, we’re not a regular, balanced geometric shape. Without a tether or something to help stabilize against, every marginal push or pull (like gravity, or the marginal friction of the ionosphere) will tend to send us tumbling.