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Gravity is great

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Gravity is the only thing keeping us from floating around the earth like gormless grinning cosmonauts. Somehow the invisible force works 24-7 keeping our feet firmly on the ground, pinning stones and sand and sea to the floor, preventing too many dreamers from literally having their head in the clouds. So until it fails and we are all partying in the stratosphere, I thought I would highlight a couple of gravity related stories so we can appreciate its contribution to our well-being.

Gravity defying children

Imagine a young mother happily ironing away downstairs in her lounge, appreciating the peace and quiet as her youngest mad kid sleeps upstairs. Lah de dah de dah, singing along to music, she catches a glimpse of movement out of the corner of her eye, turns and ... sees nothing to attract her attention.

60 seconds later she feels a tug on her skirt, and looks down to see her dishevelled 2 year old looking up at her, grinning from ear to ear. When she sees the grass stains on his knees, and relives the cursory glance a few seconds earlier, her heart stops beating. She rushes over to the window, and sure enough, the grass is beaten down, where once it had stood upright and proud.

Suffice to say, her husband had the task of installing a child-proof device on the kiddy's bedroom window to stop him from ever again defying gravity in such spectacular fashion.

Gravity defying cats

Then there was the story of the roof rolling cat. There is a contrived porch contraption on the front of our house and the cat has a habit of sunning itself on the tiles. Luckily a feline has 9 lives and enjoys the ability to always land on its feet. Picture if you will the look on its face as it rolls, then rolls some more and finally plummets out of control off the edge of the roof down into the garden below. Priceless, and if only gravity could have worked slow enough for me to have run inside to get a video camera.

Gravity defying sense

And finally, let's just say it annoys me to the point of apoplexy to see highly trained scientists using a $40bn space program for fun purposes. Oooh look at me I'm defying gravity, I'm weightless and can poo upside down into a jar. Ooh look at me Im a 60 year old scientist with a forehead the size of Cape Canaveral and I can roll 3 times before banging my million dollar helmet on the bulkhead. Smashing.

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