Why You Don't Fly Off the Earth

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Why You Don't Fly Off the Earth

Why doesn't the Moon simply drift away into the freezing dark of deep space?

In 1666, Isaac Newton looked at a falling apple and had a wild realization: the Earth's pull doesn't just stop at the treetops.

This invisible thread of gravity stretches all the way across the cosmos, bending the Moon's straight path into a beautiful, permanent loop.

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