Weightless invasive animals

Context: "Imagine that the invasive cats and rats of Boatswain Island could all be made weightlessWould they float away, solving the invasive species problem?"

Grok:

If the cats and rats on Boatswain Bird Island (a real place off Ascension Island, infamous for these invasive species decimating seabird populations) were somehow made truly weightless—meaning they experience zero net gravitational force pulling them toward Earth, while still retaining their mass and volume—they would indeed begin to float upward and eventually drift away from the island. Here's why, step by step ...

Fiction cross-reference

• Do you believe in gravity?
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Categories

• Category:Crimes against physical constants

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

Categories

• Category:Gravity (nonfiction)

External links

• Boatswain Bird Island @ Wikipedia
• [1] @ Grok -
• Gravity @ Wikipedia
• Minute Physics: What is Gravity? @ YouTube

Social media

• [ Post] @ Twitter (30 January 2026)