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Value After Hours S04 E04: Markets in Turmoil! Growth vs Value Sell-offs, Gravity, $NFLX

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The Moon Is Going to Be Away From the Gravity

When we want to send something to the moon, and i'm using that a tongue and cheek. Ah, we have to get it going fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational pull. The escape velocity for earth's gravity is 11 kilometers per second. So you have to be like, really motoring pretty fast to get away from the earth. And it turns out that the the i s s is actually going about 17 thousand miles per hour as it orbits the earth. But there are no engines that it's using. It's purely, it's almost like it's just falling back to earth. Because it's moving so fast, its angular momentum is so fast that it's not like

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