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Next time you throw a ball in the air, and it doesn't fly off into outer space, thank gravity. Right now, you and everything in the room where you are, is getting pulled down by gravity. If you don't believe it, push a book of your desk. It will go plummeting toward the center of the Earth. It's gravity. The Earth's mass, the stuff it's made of, creates gravity. It's pulling down on you and every other object you can see; it's even pulling down on the air and the ocean. Not only that, you and every atom of every thing around you has gravity. So, the objects and atoms are all, ever so slightly, pulling up on the Earth! Without gravity, there would be no weight. When you step on a bathroom scale, the scale is getting squeezed between you and the Earth. The scale measures how strong this mutual attraction is. Gravity makes a force that pulls objects together. Not only is gravity pulling on every atom and molecule of everything around us, it pulls over huge, gigantic di

Writing:
  • Adam Gross
  • Seth Gross
  • Bill Nye

Stars:
Release Date: 1993-09-10
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5
Metacritic: 8.0/10
TMDb: 7.2/10
  • Country: US
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 26

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Flight
Episode 1 - Flight
Earth's Crust
Episode 2 - Earth's Crust
Dinosaurs
Episode 3 - Dinosaurs
Skin
Episode 4 - Skin
Buoyancy
Episode 5 - Buoyancy
Gravity
Episode 6 - Gravity
Digestion
Episode 7 - Digestion
Phases of Matter
Episode 8 - Phases of Matter
Biodiversity
Episode 9 - Biodiversity
Simple Machines
Episode 10 - Simple Machines
The Moon
Episode 11 - The Moon
Sound
Episode 12 - Sound
Garbage
Episode 13 - Garbage
Structures
Episode 14 - Structures
Earth's Seasons
Episode 15 - Earth's Seasons
Light & Color
Episode 16 - Light & Color
Cells
Episode 17 - Cells
Electricity
Episode 18 - Electricity
Outer Space
Episode 19 - Outer Space
Eyeball
Episode 20 - Eyeball