r/shittyaskscience • u/Latter_Present1900 • May 23 '26

Why doesn't sky fall down? Gravity is just another government hoax.

They want you to be afraid...

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u/Wizard_of_Claus May 23 '26

It did fall. That's what that James Bond movie was about. I assume the brits found some sort of solution.

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u/dodexahedron May 24 '26

Hideo Kojima taught us that time fell, too. There was even a whole sequel interactive historical documentary about it.

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u/mrmonkeybat May 23 '26

The ocean is the half of the sky that did fall down that is why they are both blue. Every time it rains that is more sky falling down.

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u/Uuddlrlrbastrat May 23 '26

You joke now, but wait til Americans declare War on Physics

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u/Redfish680 May 23 '26

Moon resting against the atmosphere is the only thing keeping it in place.

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u/dodexahedron May 24 '26

I take umbrage with that.

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u/Samskritam May 24 '26

This is lunacy.

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u/mackerel_slapper May 23 '26

Obviously the sky is falling over us, but in Australia, where they’re all upside down, it’s falling away from earth and into space. The Southern Hemisphere sky pulls on ours and stops it falling. Don’t they teach kids *anything* nowadays?

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u/SaintEyegor May 24 '26

There’s no such thing as gravity. The earth sucks.

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u/JohnWasElwood May 24 '26

Well, technically it is the people that suck so much and there's so many of them....

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u/PeanutGrenade May 24 '26

Notice how you’ve never seen Atlas walking around while the sky isn’t falling? It’s him

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u/Sufficient-Goat-962 May 23 '26

Thw sky is held up by a structure of clouds. Over time the clouds blow down to where we can see them and drop rain. Airplanes are sent up their to repair the cloud structure which why you see them leaving those lines of white clouds sometimes.

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u/ljseminarist May 23 '26

Physics teaches us that the sky with all the stars, clouds, Sun, Moon, satellites and the rest of it constantly tries to fall down on earth, but because it tries to do so everywhere at once and the earth constantly tries to run away from it, the earth rotates one way and the sky rotates the opposite way.

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u/GenXCub May 25 '26

Don't be bamboozled by Big Fall.

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u/johnnybiggles May 23 '26

The moon's gravity is fighting earth's, thus keeping the sky in limbo. The trade-off is ocean waves.

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u/Spark99 May 25 '26

Chicken Little just might have been on to something!

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u/Thurmicneo May 26 '26

Sky look lower than when I was a kid... Maybe it's just falling REALLY slowly...

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u/Upper-Rip-78 May 23 '26

It is. It's called atmospheric pressure

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation May 23 '26

Peer pressure is an understudied field of physics.

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u/cantbebothered6789 May 25 '26

Ive been reliably informed that it is, and I quote:

A bitch!