If Earth's gravity pulls objects toward it, you'd think you'd see planets careening into the sun and satellites plummeting to Earth. That doesn't happen because objects in orbit move fast enough at right angles to the planet to "fall around" the body they're orbiting. Help a child unde...
Rather than a moon, Venus has a quasi-satellite or quasi-moon. While a traditional moon orbits a planet, a quasi-satellite stays close to a planet while orbiting the Sun. In this case, it has a more oblong orbit than Venus, which doesn't exert enough gravity to hold the asteroid in ...
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When a firefighter opens the valve on a hydrant, the force of gravity makes water run downhill from the tank, through the grid of pipes, to whichever hydrant nozzles are open. The higher the tank is located, the more speed and pressure the water will build up, the quicker it will be...
Like in Gravity, there is no "universal" point of view: the bottom of the window, "down", is oriented towards the object exerting the most gravity upon the player. You begin on the Starting Planet, near Origin. To escape Origin's gravitational force, gain enough momentum by swinging a...
[Cueball is sitting at a desk, working, with a laptop in front of him. Megan is behind him. Cueball has turned his head to talk to Megan] Cueball: Did you know that because of centrifugal*force and the shape of the Earth, "gravity" can vary by nearly half a percent between major...
Trying to chase down a chord to switch to, as one would clearly assume would happen, proved almost comically fruitless—every time I tried, it felt like I was trying, and I’d laugh it off and just keep going in that same B-flat; anything else felt like it undermined the gravity or...
Somewhere in the first or second quarter of 2012, I stumbled uponAltima, Sat’s side project. Altima is a trio, with a male rapper, the female lead singer, and Sat as the instrumentalist. I recommend the following tracks: “Indefinitely-,”“I’ll believe,”“Burst The Gravity,”“ONE,...
Look up at the sky and try to imagine the weight of the atmosphere: the huge amount of gas surrounding our planet and pulled to its surface by gravity. All that gas might look like a vast, empty cloud of nothing, but it still has weight. And it still presses down on your body. ...
3. Performance – The combination of the lowest coefficient of drag and center of gravity of any production vehicle. 4. The Quiet – Oh Model S, I can’t hear you… 5. Simplicity – The flow from inside to out – sorry to many but this car had to, had to forego excess console and...