Is there anything that goes up but doesnt come back down?

Question

Is there anything that goes up but doesnt come back down?

Answer 1

Prices

Answer 2

Vomit

Answer 3

The cost of living :-(

Answer 4

Inflation.

Answer 5

I think that artificial insemination qualifies as an answer to your question. Material obviously goes 'up' via instruments but the whole point of the exercise is that the material doesn't come 'back down'. Not always the case when 'natural instruments' are used!

Answer 6

Hot air

Answer 7

gas prices

Answer 8

Any object that has attained escape velocity.

Answer 9

A hellium baloon..

.. Well it does come down but with no hellium .. so in theory its not a hellium baloon!!

I think i have just confused myself with that one - sorry!!

Answer 10

helium balloons unless punctured

d price of fuel in south africa we pay R10 litre!!!

Answer 11

Yeah lots of things........

Answer 12

Your Age

Answer 13

My weight !

My IQ !

Gas prices !

Taxes !

Answer 14

a balloon with helium in it

Answer 15

rocket?

Answer 16

Age:)

Answer 17

Dear Donna,

"What goes up, must come down," is the understood meaning of Newton's famous law.  But that isn't exactly what it meant.  The law was formulated to explain the orbits of the planets and the moon.

While it may seem that satellites and the space station go up, but don't come down, that isn't correct.  Low orbit satellites impact the earth's atmosphere and gradually slow to the point they can no longer maintain their orbit and then drop to earth.  It has been guessed that our moon is one thing that went up (after an collision with a large meteor scoured it out of the Pacific basin) and didn't come down.  But with very sensitive instruments, astronomers can compute the time at which the moon will either come down or go off on its own.

There are couple of rocket projects which will not return to Earth.  They are the Explorers, which have been shot outside the sun's gravitational influence.

I think that it is important to realize what Newton's law was really getting at.  The law states that everything with mass has an effect on everything else with mass.  It also states that the relationship is dependent on the mass of the two objects under consideration and their relative distances.

If you and I were floating in interstellar space, we would be exerting gravitational force on each other.  If we were very close, that force would be more than it would if we were farther away.  There is a phenomenon in physics called "distance squared".  To see what it is, take  a flashlight and shine it on a spot on a wall from a foot away.  Measure the diameter of the circle.  Then move the light to two feet away and measure that circle.

You should see that the diameter of the circle is twice at two feet as it is at one.  Now if you work out the area of the two circles, you will see that the area of the larger circle is four times the area of the small one (pi r squared).  Since the same light is shining on both circles, the amount of light falling on a small space in the circles will be one fourth in the large as it is in the small.  It's the same with gravitational force, with magnetic force and all the rest.

Tiger Toy

Answer 18

SmokE

Answer 19

age

time

Answer 20

My council tax.

Answer 21

this is one of the oldest riddles. the answer is your age

Answer 22

a helium filled ballon.....but then again, eventually it will come back down....days later.

Answer 23

Yes...Everything..!!

Answer 24

the date, year, century-anything time related.

Answer 25

someone on a one way trip to the moon -lol

Answer 26

your soul to heaven, prices

yano

Answer 27

sometimes I wish my hubby was like that...lol

Answer 28

ummmm............ nothing really apart from prices!

Answer 29

heat

Answer 30

petrol prices