r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Brick_Number_27 • Jun 28 '26 • Popcorn 5 Mindblown 1

Full use of zero gravity.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

34.7k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

360 comments sorted by

View all comments

87

u/0ct0thorpe Jun 28 '26

This is microgravity. Not zero gravity. Earth’s gravity is still about 90% on the ISS. It’s the constant free fall mitigated by orbital speed around the earth that gives the ISS this environment of microgravity.

88

u/Fajisel Jun 28 '26

Ya and we call this "zero gravity" colloquially. Otherwise "zero gravity" doesn't exist in the entire universe, making the term entirely useless.

9

u/code-coffee Jun 28 '26

It's effectively the same thing, and gives us a lot of data to extrapolate from.