You seem to have a point, it almost looks like he is dangling from a wire ( like they use in movies and theatre... ) Good find !

fake or real, im impressed... i never knew their were any "lunar" videos of people larking about...

i think i see what you mean, when he is kind of trying to run back up the hill .. which itself is hard to see due to the place of the camera... it just looks like he is far away and not really up a hill.

when he was shimmying up that hill, he was kicking up dust as he went, it might juist be like when running up a sand dune..the sand catches the feet and slows us down, well that but on low grav conditions.

looks funny whatever their doing!

Would you kick a rock that size and in such an awkward fashion knowing that the slightest tear in you suit would mean the end of you ?

Originally posted by Did you see them
Would you kick a rock that size and in such an awkward fashion knowing that the slightest tear in you suit would mean the end of you ?

wow.. I never thought of that~!! NICE catch~!

keep up the good observations!!!

Originally posted by Did you see them
Would you kick a rock that size and in such an awkward fashion knowing that the slightest tear in you suit would mean the end of you ?

Would you go into space knowing that if you stubbed your toe then your suit could be comprimised?

Originally posted by Did you see them
Would you kick a rock that size and in such an awkward fashion knowing that the slightest tear in you suit would mean the end of you ?

Would you fly experimental planes -- often on the first flight those planes ever took -- and push the planes past the limits envisioned by the engineers who designed them?

Many of the astronauts were test pilots. Test pilots regularly risked their lives as part of their everyday profession. There was a time in the late 1950s that test pilots were getting killed at a rate of one per week -- although the rate dropped considerably in the 1960s. However, even though the death rate dropped, this is quite telling of the mentality of a typical test pilot -- and that is why NASA picked test pilots to be among the first astronauts.

Kicking a rock while wearing a space suit is probably among the least dangerous things that astronaut did during his professional career as a test pilot then astronaut.

Besides, as someone above said, their spacesuits were designed to take some abuse (especially the shoes and gloves).

[edit on 11/9/2009 by Soylent Green Is People]

Weight is relative to gravity. It may look like it weighs 100 lbs. but with the lower gravity it would not.

The suits they wore were a lot tougher than you could imagine. Particularly the boots and gloves.

I am pretty sure that he considered the risk before attempting the kick.

We didn't send morons into space.

They were and are very bright people.

Maybe that is why you don't find them posting on ATS.

It seems to me that they for some reason filmed that event with the camera slightly tilted making the slope seem less steep than it really is, which Phage also commented (steepness that is....)

Try to remember the funhouse where you could climb some stairs but they would seem unresonably steep. It's all trick of the angle.