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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Actually you don't as your Griff energy/effect is totally forgetting about the centrifugal force that is counteracting the effect of the gravity on items in orbit. If though an astronaut or the moon wasn't in orbit (orbit being the act of rotating around another body) then yes they would drop at exactly the same speed towards earth until they hit some form of resistance like the atmosphere..
Now whilst you desperately go away to try and find some other piece of fiction to explain away centrifugal force let me remind you that the Griff effect has just been commuted to now mean the amount of minimum brain cells a human being can posses and still be able to type  |
Gravity pulls, so the astronaut should be pulled to the earth, if he was closer he would, it's called falling!
but he is not falling because he is outside gravity!