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Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows. (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How much drag can you get in orbit lol?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

drag in orbit? 0, microgravity that pulls on everything even in high orbit? yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is this microgravity?

I mean the earth pulls with its gravity, and your vessel/satelite overcome that by being in orbit. Something coming lose will just stay in orbit too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Keyword here is eventually. Sure it will, but what it definitely will not do is accelerate towards planet earth at what looks like 9.81m/s². AKA falling.