eli5 escape velocity

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Why is there a velocity associated with escaping from earth’s atmosphere? If an object were to fly from the surface of the planet at 1 m/s without any change in acceleration would it not eventually end up in space?

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You forget you’re on an object which is spinning and that momentum stays with you when you take off

There is no such thing as “going straight up”

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