Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by TheEnlightenedOne

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Enlightened, nice thoughts there. Thing, is seems more likely nowadays that the Chinese might get there before 2020.

But, remember....there is a secret Corps of US military astronauts.

We certainly don't want to start a war in space....

Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Tuga_Truther

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Tuga....firstly, the Moon does have gravity. The discussion posed by Mike is, just what percentage of Earth's is the Moon's??

OK...regardless, the surface of any planet will provide friction as any other object interacts. Air is not required to stop you....obviously, or else you wouldn't be able to walk through air.

You can walk through water, but since it's more dense, it exerts more resistance.

In a vacuum (assuming you're in a vacuum) the friction of your feet, on the ground, will stop your motion. Either you will fall down, and stop....or, if you know how to walk, you will use your sense of balance you've acquired, and the muscles in your legs to stop. Simple, really.

Newton could not determine accurately the Moon's mass to predict the Moon's force of attraction on other objects. Its mass was later calculated to be about 1/82 of the Earth's. In turn, the Moon's derived mass and the Earth's predicted mass were used to calculate the Moon's surface gravity which came out to be one-sixth of Earth's. Since the Moon is a much smaller body than Earth, it did not seem unreasonable to scientists that it should have a correspondingly smaller surface gravity.

The moon is a nearly spherical body, of a radius of about 1,081.5 miles, from which I calculate its volume to be approximately 5,300,216,300 cubic miles. Since its mean density is 3.27, one cubic foot of material composing it weighs close to 205 pounds. Accordingly, the total weight of the satelite is about 79,969,000,000, 000,000,000,000 and its mass 2,483,500,000,000,000,000 terrestrial short tons.

In any case, the range of neutral point distances to the Moon's center is between 22,078 and 25,193 miles with the assumption that the Moon has one-sixth of Earth's surface gravity. But do note that these neutral point distances are based upon Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.

Let’s now take a reputable source, the Encyclopedia Britannica that stated the following in the 1973 printing within the topic, "Space Exploration":

If an astronaut were to jump vertically in one-sixth gravity with the same effort expended on Earth, the initial velocity would be greater than on Earth. Therefore, the astronaut would reach more than six times higher. Here we see astronauts jump just about one foot, whereas they should have attained a height of at least six feet! There’s not even one pic that shows this! Have a look at this now….

Check out the dust trail. With 1/6th gravity, the dust plumes should have gone some 60 feet high and floated off behind for a considerable distance

The Moon buggy had inflatable tires

It would have been impossible to have a water cooled space suit on the Moon, when outside temperature was already at boiling point of water, there would be no where for the heat to dissipate. But water cooled suits are a viable proposition in an environment where atmosphere is present!

The few lunar excursions indicated that the moon was a very dry world. One lunar expert said that it was "a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert." The early Apollo missions did not find even the slightest trace of water. But after Apollo 15, NASA experts were stunned when a cloud of water vapor more than 100 square miles in size was detected on the moon's surface.

BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BUGGY’S TIRE MARKS?