Not even trying to make it look good. Everything they tell you is a lie.
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I read somewhere that it is traveling at 1000 mph? isn't escape velocity 25,000 mph? ...or was that just a suggestion?
With elliptical orbits like this one the speed changes depending on where you're at in the orbit. The craft slows down as it moves toward the apex and speeds up afterward. Think of it as a car coasting up a hill and having enough momentum to go over the top, then picking up speed again as it rolls down the other side.
They say the Earth has an elliptical orbit around the sun.
They say you can't feel Earth's motion because it's constant.
An elliptical orbit is not constant, it consists of acceleration and deceleration.
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That's a good point. I haven't done the math but my gut tells me the earth's orbit around the sun is almost circular so the acceleration is probably too small to notice given that it takes A YEAR to complete one orbit.
I just looked up the flight path for the Orion capsule and it's pretty impressive. It took off from earth to meet up with where the moon would be by the time it got there, used the moon's gravity to fling it away in the opposite direction, and it's now on its way to meet up with the moon a second time and use its gravity to fling it back toward earth for a landing.
Nope, you’re too mentally defective to be considered human.