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If all gravity suddebly stopped
Would a flying airplane suddenly do backflips as it spun around or woild it go straight up
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It would disintegrate as the earth's atmosphere was flung out into space at 1,000 mph.
diagonally. it'd fly diagonally up in the direction it was flying prior. did i get it right? i never paid that much attention during physics class, or any other class really, but especially physics.
Do you have a cold?
Like the wing makes lift which nakes it try to constantly go up, but gravity counteracts, but then thered be infiniye lift so i think planes nose would constantly try to rise which means nose over tail spinning
shoopy 6 Jul @ 7:39am 
Plane has four vectors, thrust vector, lift vector, drag vector and gravity vector. The lift vector and gravity vector normally cancel each other out, but without gravity you only have the lift vector and the thrust vector, so it would launch upwards at an angle.
Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:
If all gravity suddebly stopped
Suddenly*

Unless you have a nasal cold, OP?
Originally posted by Affronter:
Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:
If all gravity suddebly stopped
Suddenly*

Unless you have a nasal cold, OP?
no, gravity is stopping because it fell into sudden debt. it had to go to work to pay it off so it's not here at the moment.
Last edited by Nülliflower; 6 Jul @ 8:52am
Originally posted by shoopy:
Plane has four vectors, thrust vector, lift vector, drag vector and gravity vector. The lift vector and gravity vector normally cancel each other out, but without gravity you only have the lift vector and the thrust vector, so it would launch upwards at an angle.

None of which would likely matter, since the planet would experience explosive decompression, as gravity is all that holds the atmosphere in place.
So, the plane would be hurled upwards by an explosion as all the air violently erupts into space, like a balloon popping.
Last edited by funewchie; 6 Jul @ 9:02am
Firstly pollen/plants etc where the seeds need to 'fall' to the ground to sprout and grow wouldn't be happening... so thats the end of oxygen production.
Also Volcanoes might have trouble with their lava. That would certainly be bad news for somebody.
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