Gravity escape: Daughters homework.
Hope the right forum for a science Q.
My 9 yr old Daughter bought home a school science book, Titled Kingfisher encyclopedia.
She was asking about gravity, and how it works? I went to my technical reference library and dusted off Mechanics of Flight by A C Kermode.
She then asked me why to escape earths gravity the speed has to be 11.2 KM/s, then showed me the book and the bit about gravity.
Enter my 12yr old (going on 30) Daughter and after listening to the two of us says " that can't be right Dad?????" If you built a really really huge ladder, a really really Humungous ladder ( Her words)and had some oxygen, you could climb like Jack and the Bean Stalk???I guess you would get tired though???
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50 mumble yr's old, 22yrs of commercial aviation behind me, and always thought of Kermode as the Principles of flt bible?
The Q why not? the raw theory I mean, disregarding the practicality of such, I think it's a beaut?
I need enlightening as much as she needs the Q answered.