Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh

• MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can be at rest in your own reference frame without falling to earth?

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  • dabaldeagul@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From your own reference frame, wouldn’t earth be falling to you? Because then this’d apply to everyone, always.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can I define my reference frame any way I want? Because if so, yes. And also no

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think better would be to include Earth’s orbit as “on earth”. This makes sense even if we expand our scope of operations to other planets

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Moon is not on Earth.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The moon and earth are “on” a shared center of gravity. It just so happens to be inside to earth, so meh, we win.

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