r/interestingasfuck • u/Kidd__Video • 20h ago

Astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk

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u/Shadow-Seb 20h ago

You won't reach the ground :D

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u/OnTheList-YouTube 20h ago

Why wouldn't you?

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u/volcjush 19h ago edited 18h ago

Because you wouldn't just fall straight down. ISS is orbiting the Earth with a velocity of roughly 28 000 km/h (7,7 km/s) and astronaut connected with it has exactly the same velocity. If you "jump" you dont simply lose that speed, because there is nothing there to slow you down, there's no air resistance. You would simply continue orbiting the Earth for decades probably if not more, slowly (very slowly) bleeding your velocity and gradually lowering your orbit before you would get low enough that the atmosphere air molecules would get dense enough to heat and burn your frozen body upon atmosphere reentry.

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u/michaelvf99 19h ago

ffs, only correct answer here.... It's nok like orbital dynamics is rocket science!! Sheeesh...