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[–] [email protected] 149 points 8 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, if you don't know about how gravity works, you would just hold up a rock, drop it, and say obviously things can move without someone moving it.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And that objects in motion will stay in motion, but our experience with friction tells us otherwise. Ask any kid and they'll say from intuition that the object will stop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Clearly it's buoyancy and something something equilibrium.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You mean luminiferous aether, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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