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Old 12-18-2017, 03:26 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I remember my mom being surprised to learn that the same force of gravity that pulls things "down" is the same force that causes the moon to orbit the Earth, and the Earth to orbit the sun. Don't know what they were teaching kids back then.
To be fair, orbital velocity wasn't common knowledge in times past. When I was a child, I thought all liquids contain water.

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