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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Heavy boots, Light luggage
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:58:12 GMT
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- jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >We have new evidence of (as if we needed any) of science ignorance. Last
- >night, while waiting for aging rock stars to get on stage with their walkers,
- >we were presented with an ad for Samsonite luggage where the luggage was
- >arriving on the moon. We were told that the weight of the bag did not
- >matter on the moon, as we watched it float around, although it would matter
- >to us on earth. We then had a closeup of a heavy boot leaving a nice
- >footprint in moon dust.
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- > I loved it.
-
- Nice. I suspect the popular media have a lot to do with the "heavy
- boots" belief-- I remember once seeing an episode of "Laverne and
- Shirley" in which they're working in some kind of space-equipment
- factory testing "gravity boots" which "hold you down on the moon."
- They would set a boot on a spring scale, turn it on, and watch the
- needle swing.
-
- I'll take ten pairs, only wire them up in reverse...
- --
- Matt McIrvin
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