• @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    Mercifully, g=9.8 everywhere on Earth’s

    Big nope. It depends not only on height, but also on density of stuff under ground.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I’d say it’s more of a “small yes” than a “big nope.”

      While gravity does vary, it goes from about 9.76 to about 9.83.

      All of which does, in fact, round to 9.8

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          1 year ago

          Everything experiences different gravity (and “apparent gravity”) in space. We should pass a treaty of using metric only there, if only to avoid losing more spacecraft.

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      1 year ago

      What’s the variation? Does it ever get to 9.9 or 9.7? It’s a negligible “nope” for people weighing themselves :D

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      21 year ago

      We already have a permanently inhabited base outside Earth (ISS) with effectively zero gravity and there might be one on the Moon or Mars in 100 years. We should pass treaties to only use metric in space – a probe has been lost to unit confusion already.