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It boggles my mind when I look up at the Moon, that in fact it's a massive rock travelling at something like 2,000 mph, always trying to fall onto the Earth, an
by rich_sasha 1y ago
It boggles my mind when I look up at the Moon, that in fact it's a massive rock travelling at something like 2,000 mph, always trying to fall onto the Earth, and missing it all the time.
- yieldcrv 1y agoits getting further away, if it helps your understanding of the situation better “falling into” was never part of the equation
- mgiampapa 1y agoIf my goal was to fall into the earth and kept missing I would be depressed too. Each try it misses by slightly more and it's orbital distance increases. How sad is that? Also, I like to anthropomorphize inanimate objects because secretly they hate it.
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- BurningFrog 1y agoEarth is also constantly failing at falling into the Moon. Why did we have to evolve in such a loser system??