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ATC_av8er t1_ja3frs7 wrote

I don't think you quite understood the gravity of the situation.

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Nonner_Party t1_ja4mqe8 wrote

I hate to party poop, but grams are units of mass not weight. So even in weightless freefall, you still have mass.

Edit: hence the classic "gravity is mass-produced" joke that's already been posted here in the comments.

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Response-Cheap OP t1_ja4ysqk wrote

Wellp. She ain't the prettiest joke, but she'll get ya there..

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Milnoc t1_ja61q95 wrote

I challenge! I would state that if you had zero mass, you would also have zero weight in any gravity field. The joke is valid!

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flamingdonkey t1_ja6ekcf wrote

If you have zero mass, then you do have zero weight, but the converse is not true. You could have no weight because the net forces of gravity acting on you all equal zero and in that case you could still have mass.

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Ewetootwo t1_ja5egpv wrote

So you’re saying even though my ‘gram’other is massive she weighs nothing. Now that’s a lady that can chow down on those chocolates.

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1000Years0fDeath t1_ja6hazc wrote

But if op has no mass then they also have no weight, so the joke still works

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flamingdonkey t1_ja6co3j wrote

Weight is determined by multiplying mass by gravity. So if mass is 0, weight must also always be 0. The converse isn't necessarily true, though, because you could be weightless, but still have mass as long as gravity is 0. But actually, this is technically impossible, since the gravitational force is diminished over distance but still never reaches exactly 0. However the 0 may not mean an absence of gravitational forces, but the net force of all of them being 0. This too seems only possible in theory, though. So if something is truly weghtless in nature, the mass must be 0. But this isn't about nature; the joke refers to a dream where the laws of physics don't really apply anyway. And the word "weightless" usually refers to gravity not being able to be felt, not actually a force of 0. So in conclusion, I ruined the joke.

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btimmins42 t1_ja7zji0 wrote

Let's talk about the location of James Webb in the context of zero gravity

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Access-Turbulent t1_ja3iany wrote

Imagine losing all your magnesium

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grandBBQninja t1_ja7q2k3 wrote

I don’t want to be a jerk, but I will be one anyway… if it was magnesium, it’d be Mg with a capital M.

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NDodma01 t1_ja4ij5q wrote

That’s heavy man

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Round_Nerve7948 t1_ja5jewd wrote

That must have been quite a unique experience!

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sintakks t1_ja86gi0 wrote

Lift a glass off of a table. Yeah, go ahead and do it. Now you just won a tug-of-war with the planet Earth.

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Gerry1of1 t1_ja48q6b wrote

I don't like to think about gravity.

It brings me down.

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