Re: [math-fun] More 4th Grade Science
From: Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> <Photo of Apollo astronaut about about 1ft above the lunar surface, resembling those bad photoshops of Chinese officials floating above recently opened highways> I assume everyone's seen SG Collins' "Moon Hoax Not"?
I remember movies of an astronaut sort of skip-hopping over the surface with both feet leaving the ground at some points.
"On the moon, an astronaut can jump higher than on Earth. Is this fact or opinion?" Assuming that cumbersome spacesuits and safety concerns prevented anyone from actually trying this, how can we call it fact? "Fact" means "done". So isn't it still simply a very believable opinion? Hah! But can you jump higher *in the suit* on the Moon than you can on Earth? That may have been demonstrated.
--Steve
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