{"id":21236,"date":"2025-09-14T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=21236"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:34:43","slug":"readers-reply-must-what-goes-up-always-come-down-life-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=21236","title":{"rendered":"Readers reply: Must what goes up always come down? | Life and style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Must what goes up always come down? <em>Sadia, via email<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>Send new questions to <\/em><strong>nq@theguardian.com<\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"readers-reply\" class=\"dcr-n4qeq9\">Readers reply<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">I like Douglas Adams\u2019 idea of flying: to throw yourself at the ground and miss. <strong>LMCollis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Yes. Although sometimes it can be: fall back to ground and miss, which we call \u201cbeing in orbit\u201d. <strong>HaveYouFedTheFish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hopeful that Reform\u2019s poll ratings do not defy this rule and come down very soon. On the other hand, Farage\u2019s levels of hypocrisy show no signs of stopping their ascent. <strong>MosesQuest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If they can maintain orbital velocity or achieve escape velocity, they will not come down. <strong>Paulo777<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">That\u2019s what the Venusians said about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. They just meant, \u201cIt won\u2019t come down on Venus,\u201d forgetting that there are other, more important planets around. <strong>jno50<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Skylab was launched in May 1973 and spread itself over western Australia after \u201cde-orbiting\u201d in July 1979. <strong>MosesQuest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">No orbit lasts for ever. In low orbit, usually the satellite slows due to atmospheric friction and tidal forces, and the orbit decays till it re-enters. In high orbit (usually geosynchronous), the same gravitational tidal forces are a bit more unpredictable and the orbit can decay, or occasionally the satellite may be ejected into a coincidental orbit around the sun instead. <strong>HaveYouFedTheFish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">I seriously doubt if I\u2019ll ever become fed down with the whole bloody lot of it. <strong>Eddie Chorepost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Amar Bharati has kept his right arm raised for 50 years. I think he would find it difficult to lower it now. <strong>GrasmereGardens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">My football team always has. But maybe they\u2019ll prove this wrong before I die. <strong>minermackem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Once the price of groceries goes up, they tend not to come down. <strong>Sagarmatha1953<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must what goes up always come down? Sadia, via email Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply I like Douglas Adams\u2019 idea of flying: to throw yourself at the ground and miss. LMCollis Yes. Although sometimes it can be: fall back to ground and miss, which we call \u201cbeing in orbit\u201d. 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