Originally posted by clackers There is a centripetal force of gravity from the sun on the earth, but it just keeps reining us in from flying off at a tangent into space.
I think (?maybe?) Tuco misunderstood the "us" to mean:
"The sun's gravity is keeping us,
the people of earth, from flying off the planet earth, into space and dying a chilly death in the discomfort of a vacuum,"
when you were meaning:
"The sun's gravity is keeping us,
the planet earth, from flying out of its orbit of the sun and into the space outside our solar system, so we all die a chilly death in the discomfort of out own homes."
Neither of which would be a great thing to happen on a Thursday evening with the weekend so close. So let's all take a moment to thank the sun and the earth for their tireless work in preventing these terrors.