2006-07-29 14:40:46 · 9 answers · asked by teri 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Actually even if you are outside the earth's atmosphere you will still fall because you will be drawn toward the earth. You would have to be farther than the moon because earth's gravity is still at work on it. So I'd say you'd need to be about a million miles away.
2006-07-30 05:33:13 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its actually about 30 miles or 63 km.
This is what NASA defines as the edge of the atmospere.
2006-07-29 21:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by gary o 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your question should be "How fast up do you have to go". From the surface, you need to move at a speed of 11.2 km/s (neglecting air resistance) to escape the gravitational field (or at least being pulled by it significantly, since you can't escape any field.) however, the speed decreases as you go higher from the earth.
2006-07-29 21:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by hkl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
30 miles
2006-07-29 21:42:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That can only be answered for a particular frame of reference, so you'd need to specify what the frame of reference is.
2006-07-29 22:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by Archetypal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Til' your smart enough lok where you are going or not to jump off
2006-07-29 21:47:03 · answer #6 · answered by Bethany B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your velocity. Are you in orbit? how fast are you going? In which direction? etc.
2006-07-29 21:43:39 · answer #7 · answered by cmriley1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you're in outerspace and you start floating around like a martian.
2006-07-29 21:47:42 · answer #8 · answered by polly-pocket 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd burn up so don't try it.
2006-07-29 21:43:06 · answer #9 · answered by just another consciousness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋