Watch me paint the face of Inertia in just over a minute! Well, it was actually about three hours of painting time, but you can watch the whole thing in about a minute. This video has been available to Patreon subscribers for a while now. A new video of Nullius In Verba is now available over there if you want become a subscriber and check it out.
Objects orbiting the Earth are in constant, weightless free fall. They are just traveling fast enough that by the time they would have fallen to the ground they have passed, or missed the earth, only to find themselves on another side of the planet falling still.
In order to miss the earth's surface from the altitude of low earth orbit, the International Space Station, for instance, must travel an amazing 4.76 miles per second (7.6 km/s).
