Will we ever be able to control gravity?

The better news is that there is no science that says that gravity control is impossible. First, we do know that gravity and electromagnetism are linked phenomena.
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Will gravity ever run out?

Earth's gravity will never go away as long as it has mass. But since this is just a force and not an energy, the never-ending nature of gravity cannot be used to extract infinite energy, or any energy at all, for that matter. Think of gravity loosely like a rubber band.
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Can you control gravity in space?

Speculative or fictional mechanisms. In science fiction, artificial gravity (or cancellation of gravity) or "paragravity" is sometimes present in spacecraft that are neither rotating nor accelerating. At present, there is no confirmed technique that can simulate gravity other than actual mass or acceleration.
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Can we create gravity?

Creating artificial gravity

Fortunately, there is more than one form of acceleration — and by using centrifugal force we can generate something equivalent to gravity on Earth. One possible way of creating artificial gravity in space is by utilizing a technology called an O'Neill cylinder.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible?



What if we lost gravity for 5 seconds?

If our planet were to lose gravity for even five seconds, it would spell the end of life on Earth as we know it. Gravity pulls objects toward one another. The more massive an object is, the stronger its gravitational pull. The closer you are to an object, the stronger its gravitational pull.
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What would happen if gravity stopped for 1 second?

When gravity disappears for 1 second the outwards force balanced by the gravity would be released causing a massive explosion. In other star systems with more immense stars and natural phenomena such as pulsars and and especially black holes the explosions and expansions would be greater.
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Is infinite power possible?

A perpetual motion machine needs no energy input to create new energy, unlike a conventional model such as a car engine, which needs fuel input, or a solar panel, which needs sunlight. If made possible, a perpetual motion machine could generate infinite energy.
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Can we harness lightning?

Lightning strikes over a year are around 1.4 billion, and of those, only about 25 per cent are actually ground strikes since most (75 per cent) are intra-cloud and cloud-cloud, and cannot be harnessed. That leaves only 350 million lightning strikes that could possibly be harnessed.
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Can we harness energy from gravity?

You can indeed harness the energy of gravitation and it is done on a somewhat small scale, as the main method to do it is to use the tidal movements of water. Most places do not get particularly impressive tides, so it remains a rather minor method of producing energy.
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Is perpetual motion possible in space?

Is perpetual motion possible? According to Frey: No, but things can be engineered to approximate or mimic it. “The laws of physics indicate that perpetual motion would occur if there were no external unbalanced forces,” he says.
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How long can a human survive 2g?

Between 1.5 g and 2 g

It states that a 1.5 g force for 7 days experiment was performed with no known negative side effects. As far as the references attached to that question go, it looks like humans can survive positive g loads of between 1.5 g and 2 g indefinitely.
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Is Earth losing water?

Water flows endlessly between the ocean, atmosphere, and land. Earth's water is finite, meaning that the amount of water in, on, and above our planet does not increase or decrease.
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What's the gravity of a black hole?

The black hole would have the same gravity as the sun. Earth and the other planets would orbit the black hole as they orbit the sun now.
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Is the Earth getting heavier?

Earth does in fact, gain and lose mass through a couple of processes, but the increase in the construction of massive structures is by far not the reason. Our majestic planet gains mass through dust and meteorites that are captured by its gravity.
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What if Earth's gravity doubled?

If gravity were twice as strong , bodies possessing the same construction and mass as our flora and fauna would weigh twice as much and would collapse. It'd be "timber!" for tall, thick trees such as redwoods.
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What if Earth gravity was 10x stronger?

So, if Earth's own gravity suddenly increased tenfold, everything would change and not for the better. Assuming that the force sky-rocketed without any alterations to Earth's general composition, a ten G scenario would see everybody and thing within Earth's sphere of gravitational influence weigh ten times as much.
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Can humans survive 2x gravity?

Finding the gravitational limit of the human body is something that's better done before we land on a massive new planet. Now, in a paper published on the pre-print server arXiv, three physicists, claim that the maximum gravitational field humans could survive long-term is four-and-a-half times the gravity on Earth.
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Can humans handle 10G?

At 1 second exposure a well-trained sitting human will survive 10g unharmed and will suffer severe injuries above 30g.
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Is Earth running out of oxygen?

Yes, sadly, the Earth will eventually run out of oxygen — but not for a long time. According to New Scientist, oxygen comprises about 21 percent of Earth's atmosphere. That robust concentration allows for large and complex organisms to live and thrive on our planet.
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What would happen if oxygen doubled?

In the event of doubling the oxygen levels on Earth, the most significant changes would be the speeding up of processes like respiration and combustion. With the presence of more fuel, i.e. oxygen, forest fires would become more massive and devastating. Wet vegetation would not provide protection either.
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What if oxygen finishes from Earth?

Without oxygen, there would not any fire and the combustion process in our vehicles would stop. Every mode of transport except electric would fail instantly. Planes flying high in the sky would fall on earth and millions of cars running on petrol and diesel would stop on the roads.
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Why Perpetuum Mobile is impossible?

perpetual motion, the action of a device that, once set in motion, would continue in motion forever, with no additional energy required to maintain it. Such devices are impossible on grounds stated by the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
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Why is perpetual motion illegal?

A perpetual motion machine of the first kind produces work without the input of energy. It thus violates the first law of thermodynamics: the law of conservation of energy. A perpetual motion machine of the second kind is a machine that spontaneously converts thermal energy into mechanical work.
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