Satellites

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Yes you will because of gravity....-__-

[shadowgoomba]

Do you have any evidence? I find it strange that astronauts float in something much bigger than them (the spaceship) but still move towards each other.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Because all atoms have a gravitational field wich attracts other atoms and we are made of attoms so we have a net gravitational field wich will attract other atoms and other things made of atoms. So if two people were in a frictionless part of space right next to eachother and there were no other gravitational forces interfering they would be attacted to eachother and would move twords one another.....

[shadowgoomba]

But there is movement in space. It is impossible to stay perfectly still because there has to be a means of propulsion to get into space. This force, no matter how slight, is enough to overcome gravitational pull.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Unless gravitational pull is verry strong as if from something alot bigger, say something about the size of the snifit robot boss or a planetoid.

[shadowgoomba]

Okay, you got me there. But why is it that the moon, being much larger than the planetoid, has such limited gravity?

[Meta Black Yoshi]

It must be lese dense, made of less dense materials. Metal=more dense than most rock. Also it's full of holes.

[shadowgoomba]

The hole thing doesn't really matter. I heard that a bowling ball enlarged to the size of the moon would have just as many of them. Plus, most of them aren't that deep.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

But all of the holes together make it a little less massive than something the same size with no holes.

[shadowgoomba]

Well, I don't really have an argument against it at the moment, so I geuss I'll just have to accept it. After all, "Once you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth!"-Sherlock Holmes

[Toomai]

Yes you will. It just depends on how far away you are from any other source of gravity. We never see it happening because humans have never left a planetary (or lunar) gravitational field.

[shadowgoomba]

But Ralphael's moon is very close to ME (might even be in the atmosphere) and people stick to that. Plus, it doesn't explain how you don't stick to the moon as well as the Earth.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Huh? The Earth is a whole lot more massive than the moon. It's also made of more dese materials. So the Earth has a stronger gravitational pull.

[shadowgoomba]

So you just contradicted yourself. If it does depend on mass, then there is no way Mario could stick to the planetoid, which would have far less masd than the moon.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

Huh??? But didn't I just get done explaining how the planetoid would be more dense than the moon. It depends on mass and density. And.......Like I said...Metal=More dense than rock.......

[shadowgoomba]

I'm pretty sure it depends on mass, not density. Example: a planet made out of solid metal would have to be approximately three-quaters of the size of the Earth to have the same gravity.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

?/Dosn't your second statement contradict the first one? But anyway, we alredy know that ME has diferent matirials in it. Theres no reason that denser metals couldn't be found there. Or somewhere in outer space.

[shadowgoomba]

How am I confusing you? You're missing the point with the metals example. I know that Mario can stick to ME. I was trying to point out that just because something is dense, doesn't mean it has more gravity. Here's a better example: Saturn, completely made out of gases, still will have more gravity than a nickel, despite the nickel being made out of denser material.

[Meta Black Yoshi]

That's because Saturn has like a gajillion times more mass than a nikel. I keep saying it's mass and density!!!!!!!!!

[shadowgoomba]

Okay, so that would mean that people could not stick to Ralphael's moon either, because, despite it having a higher density than Saturn, it also is much smaller.