If it was possible could u jump off or be stranded in space just hovering everywere could u fall into earth???

Question

i mean if were heavy enough or could u just hover into space? and why is space so dark doesnt it have the sun why should it be dark.

Answer 1

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Well, if you went to space and completely jumped off your space ship, you would float around. But, if you got too close to the Earth or any other celestial body, you would be pulled in by its gravitational force, and eventually killed by the heat of the atmosphere, (which can reach temperatures of about 2,000 degrees or more). It doesn't depend on your weight, just how close you got to the Earth. Look at the space satellites which revolve around the Earth, gradually being pulled in by its gravatational force until they fall into the atmosphere and are burned up.

Now about space being dark, the Sun is 93,000,000 miles away from the Earth, but to us, it still seems big down here on Mother Earth, but space is a whole lot bigger than the Earth, so objects look smaller. And, when you are on the other side of the Earth in space, the Sun is blocked, therefore you can't see it and it's really dark.

When an astronaut goes to the moon, there are two sides, the side facing the Sun, and the side facing away from the Sun. The side facing the Sun is SUPER HOT, because there is no atmosphere to regulate the intense heat radiating from the Sun, but when he's on the side facing away from the Sun, it is SUPER COLD. Get the idea?

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Answer 2

Not sure what you're asking but if you got too close to the Earth the gravity would pull you back in, or whatever other celestial body you were nearest to would pull you in, and space is dark because there is nothing for the light to hit, so the light just goes through space and hits stuff like the Earth and moon so we can see them.  

Answer 3

You would die before you reached the earth's atmosphere. I'm not so sure of what you're asking. Revise your question.

Answer 4

if you were "hovering" you would drop like a rock. your weight makes no difference. you need orbital velocity to keep you aloft, it counteracts the gravitational pull. as for space being dark, the "geek" got it pretty close.

Answer 5

Chances are, if you make your way into space in the first place, you are going to be traveling in an orbit around Earth.

Things in orbit don't actually "hover", rather, they are constantly falling toward the Earth. The reason they don't enter Earth's atmosphere is that they are moving really really fast at a ninety degree angle to the direction that gravity is pulling them. In the time it takes you to fall one mile toward the Earth, something in orbit will already have moved sideways far enough such that they will remain at the same altitude they were originally.

No matter where you are in space, you have gravitational forces acting on you. Depending on where you are in space, they can be large forces (if you're in orbit around the Earth), or relatively small forces, such as a satellite traveling to another planet.

As far as why space is dark:

In order for us to see something, the light has to have something to reflect off of, or enter our eyes directly from the sun (which is bad). So there are these "waves" of light, that can either go directly into your eyes when you're staring up at the sun, or they can bounce off of objects here on Earth, and then the waves will enter your eye, at a much, much lower intensity. Your eye will send signals about what it receives to your brain, which completes the picture for you.

Answer 6

Firstly consider your motion relative to Earth - if the spacecraft was moving away from earth towards say the moon, you would continue on the same trajectory - give or take the relatively small additional velocity you got when you jumped.

Now both the earth's and the moon's gravity will be pulling on you. Earth is six times as massive as the moon and will exert the stronger pull. The force due to gravity would eventually pull you back down, and friction from re-entry would incinerate you of course. However your distance from the moon is also important. if you were closer to the moon than one sixth of the distance between earth and moon, then the moon's gravity would be stronger and you would make another Small crater on its surface - no atmosphere to burn up in.

There is one area where the pull of moon and earth are exactly equal and opposite - you could 'hover' there for a very long time, if you could orbit the earth at the correct speed to keep the forces balanced.

If you looked at the sun in space without protection you would be blinded in an instant - that's pretty bright. Anything lit directly by the sun is bright. On earth the atmosphere and dust particles diffuse the light so it is more even and less intense. In the vacuum of space there is nothing to diffuse direct sunlight.

Answer 7

"What you talking about, Willis?"

your question is meaningless.  please focus.

Answer 8

No, I don't think one would "hover" in space, due to gravity.  "Something" you were near would "pull" you down to it's surface--providing whatever it was that you were near, had a surface!  And if whatever it was that you were near had an atmosphere, you'd burn up on rentry.

Anyway, I think that's what you're asking, huh?  And the dark/light "thing"---  Well, space is dark because "It's space" and the medium there doesn't reflect light like a planet does.