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🛰️ Why Satellites Never Fall Back to Earth 🤯 If you throw a stone straight up, it comes back down. But what if you throw it sideways, and you throw it fast enough? Something strange happens. The object starts falling toward Earth… but it never actually hits it. That’s...

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Believe it or not- Everything you see in this frame is falling. 😅 When I first reached the International Space Station, I had this strange hesitation: if I let go of something, won’t it just fall? On Earth, that’s exactly what happens. In space, though, my early instinct was to politely hand over items to crew-mates (one of them is quietly smirking in the background at my dismal lens changing skills 😅) instead of just releasing them. The funny part? They were just as cautious at first—so we ended up passing things around like an overly careful game of “hot potato.” Here’s the catch: nothing actually falls away in orbit. As you see in this video if I let go of the lens, it doesn’t drop—it hovers. Why? Because both the lens and I are falling at the same speed around Earth. No relative falling = no “down.” This idea goes all the way back to Isaac Newton’s legendary thought experiment: imagine standing on a tall mountain and throwing a ball. Toss it gently—it arcs down nearby. Throw harder—it travels farther before dropping. Throw it so fast that as it falls, Earth’s surface curves away beneath it? The rate of drop matches the curvature of the Earth. Congratulations—you’ve just put that ball in orbit. It’s falling forever, but it never hits the ground. That’s what orbit really is: perpetual free fall. Astronauts don’t feel weightless because gravity has disappeared—gravity up here is still about 90% as strong as at Earth’s surface. We feel weightless because we and everything around us are constantly falling together. Floating in space is really just falling—forever. 🌍✨ #shux #iss #space #shubhanshushukla #isro #axiom4 #newton #tiborkapu
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Believe it or not- Everything you see in this frame is falling. 😅 When I first reached the International Space Station, I had this strange hesitation: if I let go of something, won’t it just fall? On Earth, that’s exactly what happens. In space, though, my early instinct was to politely hand over items to crew-mates (one of them is quietly smirking in the background at my dismal lens changing skills 😅) instead of just releasing them. The funny part? They were just as cautious at first—so we ended up passing things around like an overly careful game of “hot potato.” Here’s the catch: nothing actually falls away in orbit. As you see in this video if I let go of the lens, it doesn’t drop—it hovers. Why? Because both the lens and I are falling at the same speed around Earth. No relative falling = no “down.” This idea goes all the way back to Isaac Newton’s legendary thought experiment: imagine standing on a tall mountain and throwing a ball. Toss it gently—it arcs down nearby. Throw harder—it travels farther before dropping. Throw it so fast that as it falls, Earth’s surface curves away beneath it? The rate of drop matches the curvature of the Earth. Congratulations—you’ve just put that ball in orbit. It’s falling forever, but it never hits the ground. That’s what orbit really is: perpetual free fall. Astronauts don’t feel weightless because gravity has disappeared—gravity up here is still about 90% as strong as at Earth’s surface. We feel weightless because we and everything around us are constantly falling together. Floating in space is really just falling—forever. 🌍✨ #shux #iss #space #shubhanshushukla #isro #axiom4 #newton #tiborkapu

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Bridgit Mendler on how Northwood is fixing the space economy's ground infrastructure problem: "The problem that we're solving is for every satellite, it requires a connection point back to Earth so that they can control the spacecraft." "That point of contact on Earth is called the ground infrastructure." "If you don't have it, you don't have a space mission." "It literally is just like a rock in space you're doing nothing with." "There was this whole boom around spacecraft manufacturing." "And interestingly what started becoming the longest pole in the tent was just getting the point of contact on the ground to connect with." "You could build a satellite and launch it faster than you could actually connect with it from the ground." "Which just seemed absurd." Bridgit Mendler with Erik Torenberg

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There are more than 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth by the end of 2025 already. A space satellite is launched into orbit using a powerful rocket that lifts it through Earth’s atmosphere at speeds over 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h). Once it reaches the right altitude and velocity, the rocket releases the satellite, allowing it to circle Earth due to the balance between gravity pulling it down and its forward speed carrying it around the planet. Satellites are used for communication, GPS, weather tracking, military operations, and scientific research, silently orbiting hundreds or even thousands of miles above us.

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Once you return from space, your body discovers that Earth is no longer as intuitive as it once was. After weeks in microgravity, it has become remarkably efficient at living in an environment where up and down are merely suggestions. Reacquainting it with gravity takes time. Post-flight rehabilitation is a carefully designed program tailored to each astronaut, gradually increasing the intensity and complexity of exercises to retrain balance, coordination, strength, and endurance. The objective is simple: keep challenging the body until Earth feels natural again. At times, I was convinced that my instructor, Emiliano Ventura , had made it his personal mission to find new and creative ways to make me fall. But that is how you learn. By falling. Whether after a space mission or in life. #shux #space #shubhanshushukla #india #axiom4
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Once you return from space, your body discovers that Earth is no longer as intuitive as it once was. After weeks in microgravity, it has become remarkably efficient at living in an environment where up and down are merely suggestions. Reacquainting it with gravity takes time. Post-flight rehabilitation is a carefully designed program tailored to each astronaut, gradually increasing the intensity and complexity of exercises to retrain balance, coordination, strength, and endurance. The objective is simple: keep challenging the body until Earth feels natural again. At times, I was convinced that my instructor, Emiliano Ventura , had made it his personal mission to find new and creative ways to make me fall. But that is how you learn. By falling. Whether after a space mission or in life. #shux #space #shubhanshushukla #india #axiom4

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Clavicular REVEALS his take on what to say after getting caught CHEATING 😳💔 “Oh I’m so sorry, I’ll never do it again… that’s going to make your girl leave you in a second.” “But if you just say it is what it is, if you don’t like it then you can leave… that will get you a lot further.”

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You all know full well that if you produce too much of something, its value will fall. That's elementary. Money is just the same. If you print too much of it, its value will fall ... It isn't a newfangled theory. It is as essential as the law of gravity, and you can't avoid it if you want to in fact tackle inflation.

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you know what amazes me about this song is that whenever you listen to it it makes you feel like a beat drop is happening anytime during the song but it never happens to the point that it brings you anxiety and thats what it is mainly about
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They taught you electricity was just wires and connections. Nothing more. But there was a hidden power... One they never told you about. Tesla understood it. He exposed it. And that's why they silenced him. Electricity was never just energy. It was control. It was consciousness. Something never meant for the masses. What the awakened know isn't in textbooks. It's not tauaht in schools And you'll never see it on the news. The truth is there. But first, you have to learn how to see it. Nothing is what it seems. Do you dare to question what you have been taught? In "The Truth of the World,"

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Upstate New York. 🌲 No Buildings. No Roads. Just Trees, A Stream… And This Strange Structure 👁️ Disappearing Into The Ground. It Has An Opening, But I’m Not Touching It. What Do You Think It Is? 🤔

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153,229 views • 9 days ago

Elon Musk: You can transform Mars into an Earth-like planet, just warm it up. There’s a fast way and a slow way. The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles Mars is cold and hostile because it lacks a thick atmosphere. To make it more Earth-like, the first requirement is simple in theory: warm the planet. If enough heat is added, frozen carbon dioxide at the poles could sublimate into the atmosphere, increasing pressure and strengthening the greenhouse effect. This could trigger a feedback loop where warming releases more gas, leading to further warming.
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Elon Musk: You can transform Mars into an Earth-like planet, just warm it up. There’s a fast way and a slow way. The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles Mars is cold and hostile because it lacks a thick atmosphere. To make it more Earth-like, the first requirement is simple in theory: warm the planet. If enough heat is added, frozen carbon dioxide at the poles could sublimate into the atmosphere, increasing pressure and strengthening the greenhouse effect. This could trigger a feedback loop where warming releases more gas, leading to further warming.

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370,895 views • 8 months ago