Gravity Holds Us
00:00 - 03:41
3m 41s
Beakman sticks pencil "people" into a watermelon to demonstrate that each "person" can say they are going to the bottom of the earth from where they are "standing" but there is no real "bottom" of the earth. There is no up or down but it depends on how you look at it. Then he uses a cartoon clip to explain how gravity holds us to the earth's surface.

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