But our rock isn’t floating, it’s falling constantly towards the sun with only its lateral velocity preventing it from hitting the star. It’s not floating like it’s suspended, if the planet ever stopped it would rapidly plunge to its doom.
On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
Submitted 2 days ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TipRing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
You know they say the trick to flying is just falling but missing the ground.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Well, it’s floating very quickly sideways. As it was said in The Expanse, you can’t really ever stop in space, you can just match orbits with something else
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I’d ask her out if she were on a different floating rock.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
My girlfriend is from Venus, you wouldn’t know her. We are pen pals.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Speak for urself
sirico@feddit.uk 2 days ago
You’ll be in the void soon enough don’t waste your time worrying
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
One of my fave wallpaper engine wallpapers and terminally disappointed i never got it working in Linux. Gimme a min I’ll find it and drop a workshop link.