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Things You Thought You Knew – Where the Sun Don’t Shine

StarTalk Radio

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The Expanse and the Moon Pirates

When they put on their rockets, there's acceleration inside the rocket. And when it's accelerating, there is an effective field of gravity in the ship. The higher that acceleration is, the higher that gravity will feel. If you want to get to the moon in a few hours, everybody's sitting in the chair, feeling this gravity. That's why balloons, if you're floating, but you still have a,. if you put a scale under your feet, you're going to still weigh as much as you do on Earth. It's not in free fall. Right.

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