Spyke
feddit.org

But do they understand the gravity of that discovery?

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MisterFrogreply
lemmy.world

Um acshually gravity in the international space station is not that much lower than on the surface of earth, just that they are weightless in orbit.

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untorquerreply
lemmy.world

Wrong. The earth orbits the space station. Ignore the epicyclic motion of other nearby bodies.

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MisterFrogreply
lemmy.world

I believe microgravity refers things like walking on the moon. Where the moon's pull on you is far less than than if you were on earth

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MisterFrogreply
lemmy.world

Oh, seems I'm wrong, well that's a bit incongruent if you ask me. Since the force of gravity from earlier isn't that much lower in low earth orbit :/

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Remember that gravity is relative. The earth is accelerating the ISS astronauts same as us, but relative to their inertial system they are weightless. There is no actually there. Relativity is relativity.

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Rinoxreply
feddit.it

You can have a theory that is not corroborated by an empirical experiment.

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Not in science, you can’t. Only in the colloquial versions of those words.

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lemmy.world

To quote one line from Netflix's Inside Job.

JFK: We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because I am hard.

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nyctrereply
lemmy.world

How would one allow additional bracing? You can use the same amount of bracing for both, just depends on where the bracing surfaces are. What am I missing?

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nyctrereply
lemmy.world

I mean... you'd be doing it on a ship. And there'd be stuff to hold on to.

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I'm trying to imagine how to do either, while having the posture of the other. It's not only legs..

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lemm.ee

Science has not gone far enough in this case. More research is needed.

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fedia.io

You had the perfect word to fit in there and instead you went with “gone”!? Come on man!

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moist.catsweat.com

yes, i would support this endeavor if we must be certain. for science.

so in the history of all space programs what are the odds no one has done the deed? im not sure i believe nasa when they say 'not us'.

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The soviets tried letting rats breed in zero g but they didn't seem to manage to copulate. A number of smaller organisms have been able to breed in zero g and/or microgravity including c elegans, fruit flies, and cockroaches. They have shown that mouse IVF is at least theoretically possible (petri dish embryos are possible) but it doesn't seem that they've tried actual breeding since that soviet rat experiment.

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One of my favorite theories on classic "grey" aliens is that they look like that due to a native low-gravity environment: big heads and eyes, frail little bodies.

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if you were in actual space, you'd be dead

if you were inside a spaceship, there still is sound because there's air inside

how do you think the people in the ISS talk?

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It's actually dependent on orientation to either the plane of the solar system or, if interstellar, the galactic plane. Once we become an extra galactic species, our anatomy will be such that this entire premise makes no sense.

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