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But how many people have escaped the influence of Earths gravity altogether? None?
Right. The farthest people have been is the Moon, which is still gravitationally bound to the Earth. Plenty of spacecraft have been out of Earth's gravity well, and also a car, but no humans.
What do you mean? I thought the car had an astronaut suit in the drivers seat containing the dessicated corpse of the real Elon Musk, after being murdered, memory-absorbed, and doppelganger-ed by the current version.
If that were the case the current version would have a goatee.
Long live the Empire.
That would explain a lot
You would never escape the influence of Earth's gravity, as far as I know.
From what I understand everything in the universe has a slight gravitational effect no matter the distance, it's just that the effect get infinitesimally small, but never reaching zero.
This is the reason why theoretical physicists and engineers rarely have fun together at parties.
I knew as soon as I typed this that someone would bring this up. 😵💫