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

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Microgravity and the Gravity of the Earth

If you are in zero G, the water is no longer under pressure because the water above it doesn't weigh anything. The water does not know to exit the hole and all three of those spillages cuts off instantly. While the cup is falling, it is weightless and it'll continue that way until it hits the ground. And by the way, NASA calls it microgravity. To this day, I do not understand why or rather make a stronger statement. They have misnamed it by calling it micro gravity. Microgravity is identically zero on an orbiting spacecraft. It's like we're still in Earth's gravitational field. Right. So that's why you say zero G because that

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