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Why do you weight less in space?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Here on earth, gravity pulls us down, so the power that pulls us back makes our weight. In space you don't have gravity so nothing will pull us down. You don't weight less in space, you weight nothing in space! That's why we have "mass"

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