Okay, this has been bothering me lately.

[rewdew2]

So someone on youtube got the the account name "wheatley core" first, and has been making comments that he's been stuck in deep space ETC...

But the problem is that wheatley wasn't going anywhere near fast enough to get very far off the surface of the moon, much less get into an escape velocity.

so what do you guys think?

[lobsterbark]

Umm.... Because....space...but...no..and...SHUTUP!

[NovaSilisko]

I like to imagine that whole scene took place during the few minutes before they fell back down, the moon just wasn't in frame.

[rewdew2]

Yeah... looks like valve messed up a bit once i did the mathsss.

[NovaSilisko]

It's best if you just don't pay attention to the physics in the half-life universe - they're not really intending it to be realistic, as most of HL1 shows

[TooManyErrors]

I think this is enough proof.

[rewdew2]

I think this is enough proof.

Wow, he won an award, AND apologized in 4 minutes while keep in the moon out of frame. he's a better person that i though

[llamatoes]

I think Wheatley was made out of a monprop tank and an ion engine, and had enough delta V to stabilize his orbit.

[LeonG17]

He did have a lot of stuff which they told him that if he used he would die like his flashlight. Perhaps they did give him a ion engine or RCS thrusters

[drakesdoom]

Actually it seems that he not only managed to escape the moon but go interplanetary as well. He has since been found in Skyrim

[LeonG17]

That's not interplanetary, that's interdimensionally! They must of been pulled into a black hole that dumped them into Sykrim