GET SERIOUS

What’s so funny about this? Astronauts, Cosmonauts and space programs have been around quite a while, going back to Sputnik in the 50’s and in the imaginations of science fiction writers and perhaps ever since humans on the earth were aware of the moon and fantasized what it would be like to go there. That became a reality in 1969. I remember it very well. This joke all rests on the literal and metaphoric meaning of the word “gravity”. We’ve all heard the story of Sir Isaac Newton and the apples falling from the tree and landing on his head. Gravity is supposed to be one of if not the most important force of nature. It’s what possibly keeps the whole universe together. You can’t see, smell, taste, or hear it. You can kind of feel it because it’s what gives you weight. We’ve all seen movies and videos of astronauts floating around in their space ships as well as in space. They are weightless because gravity is too weak to hold them down. We know that the bigger an object, or the greate