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Originally posted by AnteBellum
It looks like he was holding the other astronauts hand and using his foot created a fulcrum point so all he had to do was turn his body a bit to straighten up (low gravity). The whole landing on the moon thing being a hoax just doesn't make sense to me.
I often wonder though from the perspective of Neil Armstrong which is better in a historical aspect. To be part of the greatest hoax known to man or being the first to land on the moon? I guess either way he's immortalized in the history books.edit on 11/24/2010 by AnteBellum because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Truth_B_Told
Originally posted by AnteBellum
It looks like he was holding the other astronauts hand and using his foot created a fulcrum point so all he had to do was turn his body a bit to straighten up (low gravity). The whole landing on the moon thing being a hoax just doesn't make sense to me.
I often wonder though from the perspective of Neil Armstrong which is better in a historical aspect. To be part of the greatest hoax known to man or being the first to land on the moon? I guess either way he's immortalized in the history books.edit on 11/24/2010 by AnteBellum because: (no reason given)
This is what it looks like to me too.
The standing guy held the downed guys hand and created the lift we see.
Originally posted by Devino
reply to post by backinblack
They are bags. If you listen to the astronauts talking at the moment you see these things fall you will hear them mention these bags.
Originally posted by backinblack
Thanks, but they fall very fast..
1/6 gravity should see them fall much slower that here on earth..
To me they seem to fall very fast..
Objects on the Moon should fall at around 1.6 m/s. Keep in mind that there should not be any air resistance on the Moon so the bags will fall at the same rate as any other object no matter its size or density. It is hard to do gravitational acceleration calculations for such a small distance but it can be done to some degree of approximation. Take a closer look and see if you can discern the rate of free fall, is it faster, slower or close to the same as here on Earth?
Edit..BTW, if my physics is correct, they would not fall at 1.6ms, simply accelerate at that speed..
The starting velocity would be zero..
Charlie pushes the penetrometer into the ground. As it sinks all the way in he goes down with it, then stumbles forward and falls onto his hands. He does a press-up and springs back up to a standing position. Half-kneeling, he leans down to pull the penetrometer back out of the ground.