gravity
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Hansen thought of the Earth’s gravity, still working to pull the crew home.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
There have been countless other important space-related milestones since Apollo 17, our last moon visit, but what’s more dramatic than bouncing around in one-sixth of Earth’s gravity and smacking golf balls between lunar craters?
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
Just as the market is prone to overreact, though, it can be surprisingly slow to grasp the gravity of a really major crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
This flexibility makes it useful not just for studying quantum gravity, but also for investigating stochastic gravitational waves, possible dark matter signals, and certain types of experimental noise.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
“I, uh, get a volunteer to lie down on the board like so. Okay. This is the important part. Their center of gravity has to be directly over one of the chairs. This one.”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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