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submitted 23 hours ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

Stuff falling towards earth from a spaceship/satelite.

You're already in orbit, things might wander away but it won't be attracted in any specific direction.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 13 points 15 hours ago

This one doesn't apply in Star Wars because nobody orbits anything in Star Wars. Antigravity is cheaper than accelerating into an orbital vector.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

There are lot of films where this doesn't happen for sure 😃

Isn't the death star in orbit at one point?

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yes the second Death Star is in orbit around Endor.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

Then why don't the continents ever turn out from under them?

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 14 hours ago

Because the movie is only 2 hours long and it takes several hours for that to happen.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

The movie is 2 hours, but sometimes the events are much longer.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 14 hours ago

Yes, but during the parts of those events when we weren't looking, they moved the ships over so they'd be in the same place relative to the ground.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Thanks for the insight, dragonfucker

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 16 hours ago

Really depends on how low you are.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

How much drag can you get in orbit lol?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

drag in orbit? 0, microgravity that pulls on everything even in high orbit? yes.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago

What is this microgravity?

I mean the earth pulls with its gravity, and your vessel/satelite overcome that by being in orbit. Something coming lose will just stay in orbit too.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Keyword here is eventually. Sure it will, but what it definitely will not do is accelerate towards planet earth at what looks like 9.81m/s². AKA falling.

And if whatever sheared off the part of the spaceship/satellite changed it's momentum. If I'm on a space station, and fling something directly towards the earth, from my perspective it will fall directly towards earth for quite some time (probably out of eyesight) before the orbital movements make it behave in odd (compared to on-the-surface) ways.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Well, flung not falling then? Until it enters the atmosphere and it's forward speed gets breaked down I guess.

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