The REALLY important question: Does a woman who lies about her weight suffer from mass delusion?

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO

Light travels faster than sound... This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:43:55 +1100 From: Tony Langdon vk3jed@gmail.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-NA totally metric? and now almost totally off topic. To: zl2cia@amsat.org, AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: 200701220644.l0M6hxPY022134@localhost.localdomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

At 03:38 PM 1/22/2007, Sil - ZL2CIA wrote:

Are you really weightless in space? Surely you're just in free fall. When the term "weightless" is used to describe the condition astronauts experience, this is surely a literary term, rather than a scientific one.

As it turns out, the answer is "yes" or "no". It depends on your frame of reference and the definition you use. Using the definition that weight is the force exerted by gravity, then one would presume at a point near the Earth - Moon L1 point, you would be very nearly weightless (there would be some unbalanced gravitational influence of the Sun most of the time, but you could move around and null that out too...).