• Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But how many people have escaped the influence of Earths gravity altogether? None?

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      Right. The farthest people have been is the Moon, which is still gravitationally bound to the Earth. Plenty of spacecraft have been out of Earth’s gravity well, and also a car, but no humans.

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      1 year ago

      You would never escape the influence of Earth’s gravity, as far as I know.

      From what I understand everything in the universe has a slight gravitational effect no matter the distance, it’s just that the effect get infinitesimally small, but never reaching zero.

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        I knew as soon as I typed this that someone would bring this up. 😵‍💫