if you stood on the south pole would you fall down to space ?!?
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No. It would not be possible to fall off the earth from anywhere, in fact, because of the force of gravity. Gravity would always pull us back to the earth.  \n\nBesides, there are parameters such as escape velocity, etc. which are needed for a body to leave the atmosphere and reach space.
410906
I just don't wanna imagine...it would be horrible..How 'd ya sh*t??? no gravity...gross
34692
i hope not, we would die if gravity failed
93140
i dont know but i bet the zero gravity thing would make for a good time!
21030
Assuming you have a tunnel that goes through the earth, take aside the fact you would survive the temperatures and such at the center, assuming there's no resistance (vacumn like environment), you would fall into the hole... accelerate to terminal velocity...pass the center, and slowly decelerating, until you reach back a speed of 0, where you will be at the other end of the hole, whereapart the whole process would start all over again unless you grasp the edge :)\n\nConsidering that the fact there's air, you'll encounter resistence, meaning you will accelerate to the center, start slowing down, but fall short of reaching the other end, then you will fall to the center again, fall even shorter of your original jumping position, and you'll oscillate back and forth until you indeed get stuck in the center of the earth.
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just like the other guys. \nit will not fall down because there is no down and up in space. it has a very low gravity that you cannot feel. \nhere in earth we say up because when you look up its up and when you look down its down but is that really the thing that is happening. no. We say down, towards the earths center because, relatively to the earth down is the center of the earth where, also, the earth's center of gravity.\na good example of this is, picture yourself in the north pole. you looked down. imagine the earth is transparent. now picture someone in the antartica looking down also. it is like looking at a mirror. Who is down and who is up? Make sense???\nUp, down, etc... are relevant to attraction or gravity if it is in earth.\nfrom the first law F=m1*m2/d.\nwhen a man fall in a building he isattracted to the earth's gravitational pull, towards the earth's center. So relatively to the audience seeing the man's fall. we can say he is falling down but in fact he is being attracted to the earth's center.
339303
well if you forgot about the fact that the heat (the core is molten rock and iron) along with the pressure (the closer you get to the center of the earth the more pressure there is) would easily kill you no you would fall and get stuck in the center because a person can only gain so much momentum before they begin the slow down again and you wouldn't have enough to get out the other side
1149881
No. You'd fall through it. It's just water molecules. It sounds cool though!
925295
Since anti-gravitation is still SF, the only way I can think of is to take a steep dive with an aeroplane. You won't be weightless in relation to the earth, but in relation to the plane it seems like so.\nAnother situation may appear when you actually could get to the center of the Earth. There are still gravitational forces, but you are pulled equally in every direction by them, so you would be floating.
386163
we'd all DIE!!!\ni dont know!\nyou should go ask an astronomer
981310
Oh my goodness, i really think you should get back to nasa and fly back to space, you complete moron, get a life idiot......xx
119223
i don't know if the laws about antarctica might apply in this case. no nation has claim there legally, the whole is set aside for research. maybe you'd have a legal precedent there.\nif you took off from russia, you'd be under their laws, so i guess you'd be in good shape. just don't land on the dark side of the moon, that one's already spoken for by pink floyd.  bring plenty of coconut cream pie, oxygen, your bill withers cds, and your laptop so we can all keep in touch! oh and that zero gravity thing...hmmm, maybe not the best idea ever, but food for thought.  last one off soyuz please turn off the lights!
895942
it would suck to live on planets like jupiter because then you would be heavier!!
520200
assumeing that one leg wasnt longer than the other, and that you couldnt fly and just walk straight out into space, you WOULDNT end up back where you started if walking in a straight line, because the earth isnt perfectly round...  you would have to walk east-west on the equator only
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The world would be very weird. It would be kind of like living on the space station with no gravity, only much weirder. Nothing would float and nothing would sink. Wood floats on water because it is less dense and rock sinks because it is more dense. A helium balloon floats in air because it is less dense than air and a person does not because he is denser than air. In fact water stays in the glass instead of floating up out of it because water is denser than air. So everything would kind of be weightless since everything would neither float to the top no sink to the bottom of any air or water.\n\nNow all this is assuming that everything has the SAME density. If the very concept of density did not exist, that would be so weird that I could not even begin to imagine what the universe would be like or if it would even be possible to have a universe without the concept of density.
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kfawl has the most accurate answer... that although we can realistically simulate zero gravity, and the only real way to do that is to use the aforementioned Vomit Comit - I mean we can't realistically put someone at the center of the earth, and sure, if you put someone in an elevator and cut the cords, for some time, the person will experience weightlessness - not that they'll notice since they'll be thinking of their impending death.\n\nAnd you can even go in orbit and although it will feel like you're in a zero G environment, logically thinking - the earth is gigantc and you've not travelled very far from it - how can there suddenly be no gravity? Because the shuttle is actually falling, but travelling sideways so fast that it keeps "missing the earth". This also applies to sattelites or anything orbit. The only reason Earth doesn't fall into the sun is because it is rotating so fast, it "keeps missing the sun."\n\nAnd although its been said that it is impossible to really be in a zero g environment, I believe if you go out far enough, the pull of the planets or stars will be so negligable, that for all intents and purposes, you'll be in a zero-g environment,
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Well, I certainly wouldn't have to worry anymore about whether or not I turned the coffee maker off! Seriously, if the Earth stopped spinning on it's axis, there would be much larger factors at work & I'd be looking for the quickest way to get out of what was going to become an extremely unstable area of space! After all, assuming that I had a craft capable of long range travel, it might be left up to myself & whomever else might also be out on other missions to find a way to carry on the human race :)\n\nWhen I read the question the first thing I thought of was, "Pause.......BOOM!"