>>>>Declaring the world sucks is a philosophical position. Offering it as an alternative explanation for gravity is guaranteed to marginalize you as a scientist.
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>>>Your last line is the funniest thing I have ever read on the UT. I'm still laughing...
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>>For various reasons, the front hall in my parents' house was without paint or wallpaper for a period of years when I was growing up and became a graffiti wall. I don't remember most of the items, but one that has stuck with me was "There is no gravity. The earth sucks."
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>Who was the auteur?

No idea. Pretty much anyone who came in the house was invited to add to the wall. The most memorable one to me was a joke based on a couple who were friends of my parents; they were named Tom and Hope. Someone wrote "Tom, Don't Abandon Hope."

Tamar