Things You Thought You Knew – Kicked into Orbit
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The Importance of Getting the Center of Mass Right
In its right position, the center of mass is as low as it possibly can be. And if you do anything else with a weeble,. You are raising the center ofMass. That's not what the weeble wants to do relative to earth. So once you've raised the center ofmass, it says I'm going back to where I was. It gets closer to the center of the earth. In that case, only buy a few inches, but it'll do it. The same reason why. Boxes of cereal boxes need that caution. When you open it, notice there might be some settling of contents. But what's actually happening is every cereal flake wants to get
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