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minus-squareSteve Dice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 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-up30·2 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-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.
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.
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
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.
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.