You are the victim of an unfortunate office accident: a massive safe, rolling across the office floor, crushes you against a wall. After your rehabilitation, you apply for a job on the space station in Earth orbit and are accepted. A massive safe drifting down the hallway of the space station hits you when you are next to a wall. The result is: a) No injury because of the weightless conditions. b) You get crushed again c) It’s impossible to say, we don’t have enough information d) You easily shove the safe into a different trajectory
The safe can cause a lot of damage even in the space station ( the movie "gravity") but in the space station it can be pushed back much easily as gravity will not be able to impart any momentum in this case. It will still have its momentum just as on earth. So, d) is the answer.
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