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Apr 18, 2018 at 6:27 comment added ohwilleke @L.Dutch The ISS situation is on point. The vomit comet is actively alternating between rushing towards the ground and rushing up, so it isn't really a relevant reference point.
Apr 18, 2018 at 6:24 comment added L.Dutch Food for your brain before you sleep: the ISS is few hundreds km above earth surface, so not really at 0 g, yet astronauts there "float" with no weight. Same they do on the vomit comet, just less than 10 km above surface.
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Apr 18, 2018 at 6:03 comment added ohwilleke @L.Dutch I'll have to think that analysis through. But, its midnight where I live, so I'll have to think about it later. I'm not sure if "orbit" is a poor choice of words for the scenario I'm contemplating, or if that scenario simply isn't possible. The logic of gravitationally caused tides make we think that it is the former, but I don't have the bandwidth to properly think it through.
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Apr 18, 2018 at 5:59 comment added L.Dutch On a space station in orbit you would experience no gravity because of the continue free fall.
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Apr 18, 2018 at 5:34 history answered ohwilleke CC BY-SA 3.0