If they survived, wouldn't they find that they either get very dizzy, or else flattened against the sides of the ISS? Maybe the inverse square law doesn't work this way, but...
I mean, given the Earth's radius of 4000 miles, their altitude is now, what, 200 ish miles.
Say the Earth shrank to one 4000th of its current size - have a one mile radius - the ISS would then orbit at what - 0.05 of a mile overhead [250 ish feet].
Given their orbital speed of around 5 miles per second, wouldn't that translate into orbiting 'tiny Earth' once every 2 seconds or so!
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If they survived, wouldn't they find that they either get very dizzy, or else flattened against the sides of the ISS? Maybe the inverse square law doesn't work this way, but ...
I mean, given the Earth's radius of 4000 miles, their altitude is now, what, 200 ish miles.
Say the Earth shrank to one 4000th of its current size - have a one mile radius - the ISS would then orbit at what - 0.05 of a mile overhead [250 ish feet].
Given their orbital speed of around 5 miles per second, wouldn't that translate into orbiting 'tiny Earth' once every 2 seconds or so!