['Tornado friends'? That's the last thing anyone would call those things. Only a little kid would come up with something so ridiculous.
............ He is not bothering to try and correct her though, or say that's dumb. If she wants to think of them as friends, then fine, they're tornado friends. Anyways, it seems explaining gravity is more important. He doesn't hesitate to launch into one, trying to keep it at her age level so she'll understand it.]
It's an invisible force something has that draws other things towards it. Everything has a gravitational pull, even us, but you can't really tell because we're completely dwarfed by the planet we're standing on. [He taps his foot on the ground, then bends down and scoops up a rock. A moment later, he lets go of it, letting it drop back into the grass.] It's the reason why things fall when you drop them. The rock's getting pulled towards the planet because of the planet's gravity. If it didn't have gravity, whenever we jumped we'd fucking float off into space.
[He's rambling a bit again but whatever, science is cool and there's no school here, so he doesn't mind doing some more teaching.]
Birds and bugs and shit have to be stronger than the planet's gravity in order to fly. By flapping their wings they make their own force that pulls them upwards. That's called 'lift.'
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............ He is not bothering to try and correct her though, or say that's dumb. If she wants to think of them as friends, then fine, they're tornado friends. Anyways, it seems explaining gravity is more important. He doesn't hesitate to launch into one, trying to keep it at her age level so she'll understand it.]
It's an invisible force something has that draws other things towards it. Everything has a gravitational pull, even us, but you can't really tell because we're completely dwarfed by the planet we're standing on. [He taps his foot on the ground, then bends down and scoops up a rock. A moment later, he lets go of it, letting it drop back into the grass.] It's the reason why things fall when you drop them. The rock's getting pulled towards the planet because of the planet's gravity. If it didn't have gravity, whenever we jumped we'd fucking float off into space.
[He's rambling a bit again but whatever, science is cool and there's no school here, so he doesn't mind doing some more teaching.]
Birds and bugs and shit have to be stronger than the planet's gravity in order to fly. By flapping their wings they make their own force that pulls them upwards. That's called 'lift.'