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[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

In any case, both acceleration and velocity are vectors, both have a direction, and so a person's velocity sure as hell can't be constant when they're going in circles.

Well, you can if the space-time is curved right, that's what orbits are, but that't just a nitpick.

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