If you were ‘weightless’ and ‘floating’ in space and let go of a brick from your hand it wouldn’t go anywhere, it would just stay where it was. If you threw it at your head then yeah, it would probably heard. But they probably don’t have bricks on the space shuttle, they are pretty useless in space. Unless you want to do the brick vs head experiment, of course…
As you are in “freefall” in space, you feel an effect called zero gravity – this means you can’t drop a brick – when you let go it would just float there!
Nice question! I’m not sure you can drop a brick on your head in space because of the microgravity, so if you just sort of softly collided with the brick I don’t think it would hurt no 🙂
Without gravity, dropping a brick would be impossible. In space though, there is also no air. Without air resistance, throwing a brick would be incredibly dangerous! It would continue to hurtle through space until it hit something – never dropping downward or slowing down due to air resistance.
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