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From: Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net>
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Subject: Re: The Apollo moon landings
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:53:39 -0700
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Bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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.

Insane nonsense.

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

It wasn't on their schedule, they weren't teenagers on a joy ride to
make an internet video, and how fast a thrown object goes up has little
to nothing to do with gravity and almost everything to do with the
thrower.

You are getting more insane by the day.

<snip insane nonsense>

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