I’m watching Slingshot (2024). The title has to do with a spaceship doing a “slingshot” around a planet to gain the speed it needs for a maneuver.

I’ve heard about this in myriad movies, e.g., The Martian (2015), to name just one, but I never really knew how it works. It’s explained in this movie, and it makes perfect sense. Watch it to find out. Let me know if you already knew it, and I’m just some dumb schlub. I doubt that that’s the case. I learned something that, IMO, most people didn’t know.

I’ve heard about this in myriad movies, e.g., The Martian (2015), to name just one, but I never really knew how it works. It’s explained in this movie, and it makes perfect sense. Watch it to find out. Let me know if you already knew it, and I’m just some dumb schlub. I doubt that that’s the case. I learned something that, IMO, most people didn’t know.