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Subject: 
Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space
Date: 
Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:08:41 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.%ihatespam%org
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Kevin McMillin <mcmillins@prodigy.net> wrote:
It's also interesting to note that it is only your speed(17,000mph) that you
orbit the earth that makes you weightless, you see, you're constantly
falling. You have to go far beyond Mars to feel truly weightless.

However, in between, you'll feel almost entirely weightless -- microgravity.

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  Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
 
It's also interesting to note that it is only your speed(17,000mph) that you orbit the earth that makes you weightless, you see, you're constantly falling. You have to go far beyond Mars to feel truly weightless. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)

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