• keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Oh, the first time I read this I had a completely wrong idea what it was about. I thought it was talking about like the Dalai Lama having being reincarnated or something.

  • SpaceBar@lemmy.world
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    No one has gone far enough from earth to not be influenced by its gravity. Therefore anyone who has jumped into the air has been off the earth.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      Nothing is far enough from Earth to not be influenced by it’s gravity, since gravitational interaction has infinite range. Even though it weakens over distance, it never reaches zero

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        1 year ago

        Technically correct but there is a reason why people talk about a body’s sphere of influence.

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    But how many people have escaped the influence of Earths gravity altogether? None?

    • keenanpepper@sopuli.xyz
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      Right. The farthest people have been is the Moon, which is still gravitationally bound to the Earth. Plenty of spacecraft have been out of Earth’s gravity well, and also a car, but no humans.

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      You would never escape the influence of Earth’s gravity, as far as I know.

      From what I understand everything in the universe has a slight gravitational effect no matter the distance, it’s just that the effect get infinitesimally small, but never reaching zero.

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        1 year ago

        I knew as soon as I typed this that someone would bring this up. 😵‍💫

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    I’m not sure about that. Millions of people get on a plane or hot air balloon each year and are no longer on earth until they land.

    If you mean go into space then it depends on the definition of space. The international standard would list 655 people. But by the US definition there are more (mainly military aircraft personnel)

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      1 year ago

      that’s not on the surface of earth. we all know what the post meant, that would be just pointlessly pedantic imo.