[ WP ] Gravity suddenly shuts off on Earth . How does everyone react ? What happens ?

`` This is Major Keosten Reynolds to base, over.'' The voice rang over the intercom. 
 
 `` We seem to be having a slight problem, do you read me?'' Keosten's urgency bled through his voice. No response. 
 
 `` We're moving out of orbit. Quite rapidly, in fact. Do you read me?'' *static* 
 
 `` Nothing. They paid these guys in Houston good money to work for NASA, and all the money in the would does n't let these lazy asses respond...'' Keosten's musings over the intercom were interrupted by the techy in the back. 
 
 `` Do you even see this?'' Awe wept through the engineer's voice. 
 
 `` What?'' 
 
 `` Come back here and see.'' 
 
 `` This better not be one of your stupid trinkets again...'' He secretly hoped it was, because he'd not witnessed something able to impress Cody yet other than the little inventions and code snippets that filled up the poor sap's free time. *He's never going to get a girl with his hobbies... * Keosten shrugged and crawled through to the back. 
 
 `` Oh my god. Oh. My. God.'' Keosten watched as everything on the Earth was simultaneously launched out into space. A cloud of expanding buildings, people, cars, lights, anything exposed to the surface flew out into the void. A large rock that could have been Mount Everest was visible flying in the general direction of the sun. 
 
 Cody taunted, `` Any idea what caused it?'' 
 
 Keosten thought for a minute, but he was paid to be a figurehead for the expedition to the ISS, not the brains. `` What?'' 
 
 Cody laughed. `` Someone broke a law.'' 
 
 `` WHAT?'' 
 
 `` Someone broke a law. It's not a legal law like'drive under the speed limit' or something stupid like that. Someone broke a law of nature.'' 
 
 `` But how did that cause this?'' 
 
 `` Breaking a law of nature does n't mean you get to pay a fine or go to jail for a few years. It's just broken, until it gets fixed like an IT guy fixing your computer. In particular, the law of gravity was broken so all gravity now goes out the window. And that'll affect us in about 2 minutes.'' 
 
 `` Is n't it already affecting us? We're flying into space!'' 
 
 `` We wo n't be for much longer. You see, gravity keeps everything on Earth. We shut off gravity, nothing stays on Earth. Right?'' 
 
 `` That does n't answer my-'' 
 
 `` Let me explain, please. Gravity **also** keeps planets and stars together. They're all spinning pretty fast, and when you get rid of gravity like that... Nothing stays together.'' 
 
 `` Why 2 minutes, then?'' 
 
 `` The sun exploded 6 minutes ago and the radiation from the explosion is thus about 2 minutes away.'' 
 
 `` Oh.'' 
 
 `` Yup. Say your prayers.''
