Reply to post: Re: Units, you nit!

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Re: Units, you nit!

At the altitude of the space station (~400km) gravity is not that different from the earth's surface (about 89% I think), things just appear weightless because it is moving so incredibly fast sideways and falling due to gravity but with the same curvature as the earth's surface. Surely this means that the space station does have weight and it isn't vastly different to the weight it would have if sat on earth's surface ?

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