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Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space
Date: 
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:13:22 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Kevin McMillin writes:
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.

You mean to *be* truly weightless.  There are several means of *feeling*
weightless even on the earth such as reachng neutral buoyancy under water.

John
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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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