I was 8, and my brother told me
that gravity was linked to how big the Earth is. I told this to my friend whose dad overheard me. He came over to us and told me that "No it isn't, it's because of the weight of the air pushing us down". Being 8, I didn't have the wherewithal to get into a discussion about wrong he was. However, if I tried to point out all the holes in his idea, the B3ta mods would probably go bankrupt having to pay for all the extra hard drive space.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 13:29, 14 replies)

It's why dead bodies don't just float off into space.
Water pushes us up, air pushes us down.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 13:39, closed)

Trains push us along.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 14 Oct 2013, 16:31, closed)

Atmospheric pressure does stop us exploding, though.
Total Recall was 100% accurate about that.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 13:56, closed)

iirc you boil rather than explode as such.....but it's equally unpleasant
Best alternative explanation for gravity I've seen is that everything is doubling in size all the time, so it's not apparent to you, but you appear to be pulled towards the earth. Bit weird, but tricky to disprove.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 14:11, closed)

Why isn't the distance between you and the earth doubling as well, then?

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 14:13, closed)

Because the distance between isn't a thing, it's an absence of things.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 14:27, closed)

Filled with air molecules which would be doubling at the same rate and pushing you away, yeah

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 15:44, closed)

Zactly, so looking no different to you as you doubled also, etc

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 15:58, closed)

Call me crazy, but I've got this theory, right, that something that can be neither proved nor disproved DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 16:28, closed)

Yer but keep arguing anyway,

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 14 Oct 2013, 16:30, closed)

It's easy to disprove
When something increases in volume by say two times along each dimension, thus squaring it, its mass is cubed.

So if everything was getting bigger all the time, you'd be crushed under your own increased weight. Science, bitch.
(Eukanuba, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 17:01, closed)

Gravity is a myth.
The earth sucks.
(wolfpussy will nibble your fingers on, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 17:50, closed)

Only if the fundamental force that gives matter its mass were also to increase.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 18:19, closed)

It's because God doesn't want you in heaven yet because you are filthy with sin.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 18:18, closed)