95% chance you’re going to get that advice regardless.

He sounds extremely abusive.

I mean, living in the woods is a great way of figuring out just how much or how little you actually value a social life.

More than previously thought was the answer for me.

It’s friction with the air.

You’ve experienced a strong guest of wind, now multiply that by 700x. At some point the temperature of the air is meaningless. The impact of you on those air particles gives them soo much energy they get white hot and radiate heat as energy, thereby heating you up. Like standing next to a fire.

No. Jumping forward increases your elevation at the far orbit. Jumping back decreases it. But you’d end up back on where you jumped in one orbit either way.