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[challenge entry] Sod it. I'm leaving this here.....'Spacewalk'.

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(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 14:26, archived)
# Any physicist here could tell me if this is actually possible?
Because I want to hold my own astronaut balloon
(Monocromatico Lady Godiva's horse, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 16:38, archived)
# Astronauts don't float because there's no gravity, they don't fall to earth because they're moving sideways really quickly. Strangled Beagle ensues.
Gravity if stationary at the ISS is about 90% earth surface. Trufax.
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 19:02, archived)
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Could he do it from a geosynchronous orbit?

Also, don't send the beagle to Mars.
(I helped save b3ta! FridgeBadger, Thu 16 Jan 2014, 19:10, archived)