Heavy Boots

1. "If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it a) float away, b) float where it is, or c) fall to the ground?

2. "You've seen films of the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, why didn't they fall off?


answers

Everybody starts ignorant... but you don't have to stay there.

No, you don't have to. But it's easy, comfy, and apparently socially acceptable these days.:(

No no no, the pen would have dropped to the ground and the astronauts didn't fall off because the landing was filmed in a sound stage here on Earth! :rolleyes:

Magnets.



Now, how do they work?

Yeah, we don't know. I'm ignorant and I have lots of company.

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xoxoxoBruce;814225 wrote:

2. "You've seen films of the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, why didn't they fall off?

They were on a Treadmill.

I thought the answer to both questions was gravity. So that's why they didn't fall off, and that's why a pen would eventually fall to the ground.

Am I wrong?

TheMercenary;814457 wrote:

They were on a Treadmill.

Snort. :D

Aliantha;814463 wrote:

I thought the answer to both questions was gravity. So that's why they didn't fall off, and that's why a pen would eventually fall to the ground.

Am I wrong?

No, you are absolutely right... and smarter than the average bear. :thumb:

Awesome. That's something I don't hear every day.

You're always right on your birthday, that's the rules.

They didn't fall off for the same reason that we do not slide off of the earth. Scientifically minded people today like to say that gravity is the least understood of all of the known forces. I'm not sure if we understand any of the known forces, we only know what we observe and that gets filtered through our ego centric minds. But, yes the answer is gravity. The earth weighs 10 pounds when placed on top of a 10 pound table, it won't slide off of the table, I promise.

But it might roll off the table, because all that soda made it heavy in lower hemisphere. ;)

A thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold, but---

how do it know?

There's a bunch of tiny demons in the rim that keep any air molecules out whose speed doesn't match the ones inside.

(apologies to Larry Niven)