you just trust everything they tell you

If they falls as an irreducible quirk of the universe

It should be a constant rate, right?

9.8 m/s^2

I'm talking from the perspective of someone who has done acceleration measurements

<@657953077655240704> nice

@🎃Oakheart🎃 so why do they fall in a near vacuum?

I'm guessing you assume I am lying?

No

I'm just saying its fake.

And physics class = fake as well.

Obv they're going to teach you shit to make you think its a globe.

Hang on

And equations set up to fit a globe model.

So why do things fall in a near vacuum?

Of course the equations are going to fucking work, because they've been designed to fit a globe!

Buoyancy.

So the same object should fall at the same rate in a vacuum, right?

@🎃Oakheart🎃 still thete?

There*

Yes

@Amthyric ive discussed this with you already

stop asking the same thing over and over

claiming no one has answered you

Make a 100 meter tall portable vacuum chamber and test it in multiple places around the world

Then we will consider the info

How satellites go into orbit

this is how we were taught satellites work in one of my first physics courses

basically imagine shooting a canonball farther and farther until at some point it doesn't hit land but basically keeps missing Earth

so it's basically in constant freefall

if that were true, shouldn't its velocity be constantly increasing?

esp with almost no friction since it's outside of the atmosphere

just occurred to me the other day....

No because the center of gravity is changing.

It's velocity DOES constantly increase. But it's relative speed remains the same because it's constantly changing velocity is always at right angles to the center of mass it's orbiting.

It’s velocity does not constantly increase, I’m confused on what you’re trying to say, drewski

An orbiting object has a constantly changing velocity.

Because it's constantly changing directions

partially correct
the (angular) speed stays the same, but the direction changes

velocity is a vector, speed is a scalar