Bryan Green
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And some, I think, space shuttle missions went a little further beyond that.
But the space shuttle was meant to be in low Earth orbit, right?
And so it's not... And what happens is, I watch this, is, you know...
we've all seen like how we've all seen the experiments of, of like the science professor teacher who's teaching the kids about gravity.
And they have this big rubber piece of rubber, like a sheet.
And then they put a big ball, heavy, you know, whatever it is.
Bowling ball in the middle of it, and then they roll a baseball around, and the ball just keeps spinning around.
It's always falling toward something that's heavier, but then it's orbiting it at the same time.
And that is what the space station is locked in this always falling toward Earth, but spinning around.
And every once in a blue moon, the space station...
boosts itself up a little bit so that it corrects, you know, so that it stays in the air, essentially.
But one day the space station is going to fall down to Earth.
And that's, I think they're already planning for that.
Like in the next 10 years, it's going to, they're going to bring it back down.
But that is essentially what people do when they go into low Earth orbit is that, yes, they're in space.