• Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree sample to go into space
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Send shit to space is really fucking expensive. Why would they do it if it has no practical or scientific use up there? Waste of money, really.
[QUOTE=Deathbyfire;21865427]Theres the answer.[/QUOTE] it's still fucking stupid imho
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;21864452]Gravity is always acting upon you. It is just weaker when you are far away from celestial body. The piece of wood won't be defying anything.[/QUOTE] Gravity at that altitude is still about one G. If you were to fly into space at a 90 degree angle with no foreword momentum, you would fall as soon as you stopped countering Earth's gravity with your engines. An object can maintain an orbit by having enough forward velocity to counter gravity. The Shuttle would still be falling, but "falling" around the Earth. See here: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Newton_Cannon.svg/200px-Newton_Cannon.svg.png[/img] The greater your forward speed, the farther you will go before falling. With enough speed, you would fall around the curvature of the Earth forever. The wood is defying gravity in a sense, without rockets to slow it down or slow atmospheric drag over the course of years, it would never return to the Earth. [editline]07:14AM[/editline] [QUOTE=I-the-gamer;21873353]Send shit to space is really fucking expensive. Why would they do it if it has no practical or scientific use up there? Waste of money, really.[/QUOTE] The Shuttle's going there anyway for a dozen or more other things. It's just like "Hey. Let's tuck this thing in the back and take it with us!". It adds no real cost to the mission.
[quote=Wonky]The Atlantis shuttle[/quote] [img]http://stargateunreal.com/images/Galerij/20070820-stargate-atlantis.jpg[/img] wat [img]http://dube.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/doctor_daniel_jackson_michael_shanks2.jpg[/img] [b]"God damn it Jack, you're not supposed to tell them!"[/b]
The shuttle was made and used way before that series. [img_thumb]http://www.spacearchive.info/2007-06-22-nasa-shuttle-atlantis-large.jpg[/img_thumb]
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