Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g

BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Fleur_@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure bowling balls and feathers fall all the time

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  • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think they mean the vacuum part.

    To which I’d add that we had astronauts perform this experimentally on the surface of the moon.

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    • Fleur_@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True fair enough, but since I’m here, being an internet clown, I might as well double down…

      Obviously heavy and light objects never experience gravitational attraction in a vacuum throughout the vastness of the universe. Clearly F = G(m1m2)/R^2 only applies to objects in earths atmosphere.

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    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also, I’ve seen a video of an experiment done in a vacuum chamber. (Although they kind of botched the point of the video by showing lots of slow-mo and junk like that.)

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