Simon is writing a story about an astronaut whose spacecraft has been boarded by space pirates. The astronaut has her lucky penn

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Simon is writing a story about an astronaut whose spacecraft has been boarded by space pirates. The astronaut has her lucky penn

y in her hand behind her back as the space pirates break into the control room. She has just locked the controls so that the ship is accelerating in the direction of the control room’s ceiling. Simon wants the astronaut to use the penny to hit a button on the control panel to turn off the lights and escape. The button is located a short distance behind and below the astronaut’s hands. How should Simon use the theory of relativity to describe what the astronaut must do in order to hit the button?

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scZoUnD [109] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-17T22:38:28+03:00

Oct 27, 2015 - In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney and his crewmates onboard ... is grossly unqualified to challenge the science behind The Martian. ... of Space on the Law of the Sea, that Treaty has thus far been signed by only a handful of nations, none of which have their own ability to launch astronauts into space ...