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minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoI mean, sure, but that’d be like saying I’m pulling the earth towards me when I jump.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·2 months agoYou don’t have to jump, you’re already doing it. Some of us more than others… *Looks in mirror and hangs head
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoIf you have ever done a handstand then you have lifted over your head the weight that the entire mass of the earth has in your own gravitational field.
minus-squareexasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoIsn’t that canceled out by the pushing you do when you start to jump?
minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYeah, but then I pull it back as I’m falling.
I mean, sure, but that’d be like saying I’m pulling the earth towards me when I jump.
You don’t have to jump, you’re already doing it. Some of us more than others… *Looks in mirror and hangs head
If you have ever done a handstand then you have lifted over your head the weight that the entire mass of the earth has in your own gravitational field.
Isn’t that canceled out by the pushing you do when you start to jump?
Yeah, but then I pull it back as I’m falling.