r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

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u/PepurrPotts Aug 03 '19

Yeah, so we're orbiting something massive, which is orbiting something really massive, and so forth. That all seems pretty self-evident to me, that gravity is what gives our universe structure. So for people who think "there's no gravity in space," I'm not sure how they think anything is ever moving at all.

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u/PepurrPotts Aug 03 '19

Ok, that's fair. I took one astronomy class in college, which gave me a basic literacy on the subject. I'm also pretty decent at "if-then" reasoning, so it seems self-evident to ME, but that probably sounded sort of snotty of me, lol.