 Quote by nrqed
 Even if an object is dropped from the space shuttle in orbit around the Earth, its acceleration is NOT zero!! |
You're right, of course, but it's not relevant for the OP's purpose of dropping the object off a platform. I could have worded it better.
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Even at the altitude of the space shuttle the value of g is far from being zero (it's smaller than 9.8 m/s^2 but is still far from zero).
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Right - which is what I said.