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Originally Posted by Janszoon
No, it doesn't make sense, but let's set that aside for now. I have a question.
In this flat Earth scenario, how do satellites with a polar orbit function (that is, satellites whose orbit passes over the North Pole, then the South Pole, then North Pole, over and over)? What sort of path are these satellites following?
For that matter, how do any satellites stay in orbit? The whole principal of an orbit is that a satellite is continuously falling in a circle around a sphere, and it's a balancing of gravitational pull and inertia that keeps them traveling that path. In a flat world with no gravity, how do they stay up and what keeps them moving in what would be a circle around nothing parallel to the flat surface of the Earth?
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^I'd like to hear a response to my questions.