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[-] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 72 points 6 months ago

While gravity can to a degree obscure this fact, it's corollary that an object in motion will stay in motion is pretty alien to anyone who has grown up on earth, under the daily affects of atmosphere/friction.

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 40 points 6 months ago

Exactly. People weren't so much amazed by the fact something wouldn't move until you moved it, they were much more amazed by mathematical proof that in the vacuum of space objects will just keep moving however you pushed them - it's an alien idea when all you've ever experienced is the opposite on Earth.

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