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From: bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor)
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Subject: Re: The Apollo moon landings
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:29:55 +0000
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 22:52:34 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

> In sci.physics Bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 16:45:44 +0000, David Canzi wrote:
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>>> On 6/7/25 18:23, Bertitaylor wrote:
>>>> Arindam remembers his father wondering after watching the Apollo moon
>>>> landing video in 1969, why they did not jump up at least three feet. He
>>>> also thought they could at least have thrown a stone up and thus show it
>>>> falling slowly.
>>>
>>> When they jump, once their feet leave the surface, their acceleration is
>>> determined by the gravity of whatever they jumped up from.  If you
>>> measure how high they jumped and how long it took to get to that height,
>>> you can calculate their acceleration due to gravity and compare it with
>>> the acceleration due to gravity at Earth's surface.
>>
>> As they were on Earth they merely shuffled leaving deep prints.
>
> Actually they all hopped around because it was good exercise and easier
> to do than to walk in the bulky suits in low gravity, crackpot.

Hopping was shown as that could be done with cranes pulling them up or
down as per direction.

Why did they not throw a moon rock UP and show how slowly it went up and
came down?

Answer is that in those days camera work was not as advanced as now.

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Bertietaylor
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>>
>> Woof woof
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>> Bertietaylor
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