I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

  • macniel
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    22 days ago

    Really depends on how low you are.

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      22 days ago

      And if whatever sheared off the part of the spaceship/satellite changed it’s momentum. If I’m on a space station, and fling something directly towards the earth, from my perspective it will fall directly towards earth for quite some time (probably out of eyesight) before the orbital movements make it behave in odd (compared to on-the-surface) ways.

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        21 days ago

        Well, flung not falling then? Until it enters the atmosphere and it’s forward speed gets breaked down I guess.

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        21 days ago

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

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          21 days ago

          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.

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            21 days ago

            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.

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              21 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.