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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Hope you're enjoying your Memorial Day weekend, mixing some food and fond and family and friends in with some good solid patriotism.

Don't forget the reason for the celebration.

Now back to the Armstrong and Getty replay.

Quick word from the world of science here, a good friend of the Armstrong and Getty show,

talking about what you were discussing, launching toward the moon, how we've got to wait

until a particular, you know, moment in the orbit.

The rotation of the Earth flings the rocket and helps it speed out of the atmosphere, which is wild to me.

Exactly, yeah.

As my old friend Mike says, tell Jack to imagine a marble in a funnel

and how it seems as it gets closer to the drain, whip around faster and faster.

That's the slingshot effect, and that's how it works.

It's a gravity thing.

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