Quote from Turok:
TM:
>Throw a baseball on earth, throw one on
>the moon, and throw one into space.....will
>the results be the same? Obviously not.
Are you presenting this as evidence that a baseball isn't accompanied by a gravitational field? If so, right or wrong you have connectivity issues.
>In fact the ball thrown into space without
>any sort of gravitational influence will continue
>travelling at the same speed until it hits
>something.
Now we are getting to some REAL hearty ignorance. Please find me a place in space "without any sort of gravitational influence". This is the common misconception people who don't study have of the 'weightlessness' in space -- that there is no gravitational influences as work.
You guys are a hoot.
JB
PS: and the ball thrown is space WILL NOT travel at the same speed until it hits something, but rather will vary it's speed dependent on the gravitational forces it encounters. Space travelers (mechanical and human) use these forces in slingshot maneuvers to alter speed and trajectories.