This came off as an afterthought while penning down the previous post. Is it possible? Tell me how its not.
Consider this:
I am walking up a seemingly endless stairway with all the equipment I require to battle out the journey. I reach a point where it ends. And it ends where some imaginary orbit intersects it.
I jump off this stairway in a suitable direction, attaining the orbital speed required in this case, and lock myself into that orbit, for... ever after.
Now just hold on and reflect.
Did we miss out, rocket fuel? ... YES.
Did we miss out, supercomputers? ... YES
Did we attain Escape Velocity? ... NO
Wait a minute... all this time we were taught about escape velocity in Physics at school, were we being fooled? Is escape velocity ever attained in our satellite and space launches? Or is it just a theory?
Consider this:
I am walking up a seemingly endless stairway with all the equipment I require to battle out the journey. I reach a point where it ends. And it ends where some imaginary orbit intersects it.
I jump off this stairway in a suitable direction, attaining the orbital speed required in this case, and lock myself into that orbit, for... ever after.
Now just hold on and reflect.
Did we miss out, rocket fuel? ... YES.
Did we miss out, supercomputers? ... YES
Did we attain Escape Velocity? ... NO
Wait a minute... all this time we were taught about escape velocity in Physics at school, were we being fooled? Is escape velocity ever attained in our satellite and space launches? Or is it just a theory?
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