As I watched the space shuttle, Atlantis, launch today at EXACTLY 2:28 PM EST, I pondered the massive amount of energy needed for the shuttle to escape the gravitational pull of the earth. I mean, the Moon weighs 8.08 x 10^19 tons and it couldn’t escape the gravitational pull of the earth, so how can man heave a 2,250 ton space shuttle into space?
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By burning 803 tons of fuel and making baby polar bears cry.
2 years ago