Comment Re:How much does it weigh in space? (Score 1) 153
No that is correct. Wt=mg . So you're weight equals your mass times the gravitational field strength. The field strength at the ISS is only marginally smaller than on earth, which in itself varies as you move around as evidenced by the fact that someone below used 9.81 as the strength instead of 9.82 as I would have. (Don't harp on about nude numbers, there's no point in including them here. ) So your weight is still the same a top Everest, at the dead sea or on the ISS.
Here's a question for you. A rocket takes off, why does its acceleration continue to get larger?
Answer: Its burning the fuel and exhausting it out the back so it has less weight to overcome, thus a greater unbalanced force. It has nothing t do with a decreasing gravitational field strength, the earths field reaches all the way to the sun and wobbles that a bit.
And I know perfectly well mass doesn't change, not need to capitalise it.