He shouldn’t be, but then again he shouldn’t be able to reach orbit with a trampoline, either.
He could be in orbit but it doesn’t look like he has much velocity parallel to the earth’s surface (orbiting is basically going sideways faster than you can fall-like a ball spinning on a rubber band, the ball acting like a the trampoline-naut and the rubber band acting as gravity). If he’s in orbit, it’s a pretty elliptical one, like a comet’s orbit.
If he was traveling over ~25,000mph at earth’s surface, he’d be going fast enough to escape earth’s gravity and drift into space until he hit something.
wait, so is he is orbit?
He shouldn’t be, but then again he shouldn’t be able to reach orbit with a trampoline, either.
He could be in orbit but it doesn’t look like he has much velocity parallel to the earth’s surface (orbiting is basically going sideways faster than you can fall-like a ball spinning on a rubber band, the ball acting like a the trampoline-naut and the rubber band acting as gravity). If he’s in orbit, it’s a pretty elliptical one, like a comet’s orbit.
If he was traveling over ~25,000mph at earth’s surface, he’d be going fast enough to escape earth’s gravity and drift into space until he hit something.
I don’t know what I expected, but I found this really funny! Just the fact that yeah, didn’t really think this one through, did we.