*View of Station Lunar Module (LM) and feather and geological hammer used for test of Galileo’s law of motion concerning falling bodies beside the LM. Image was taken during the third Extravehicular Activity (EVA 3) of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled TT, film type was S0168 (High Speed Color Exterior or Color Interior Ektachrome EF – High speed color reversal), 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 39 degrees.*
kinetic_honda on
Just imagine, back in the day, you were a bird just flying around unassumingly. Just going about your bird life. Completely unaware that one of your feathers is going to be on the moon at some point.
ShooterMc7929 on
The universe works in mysterious ways….
callbackloop on
What a mesmerizing shot. I love it!
jessevargas on
Shot with a Hasselblad. Nice!
Underwater_Karma on
But where’s the hammer?
Checkmate atheists!
MaxTheHobo on
Clearly a bird flew into the studio when they were faking the moon landing photos.
SirNortonOfNoFux on
That’s a great song title, honestly
Quirky-Pressure-6147 on
Pretty sure the astronaut did a gravity experiment, probably one of the basic experiments on the moon
thehoagieboy on
This is so clearly faked, because we know that birds are not real.
Bowman_van_Oort on
The hammer: am I a joke to you?
Pablouchka on
Forrest Gump on the moon ?
ITZaR00z on
Nasa isn’t familiar with the concept of “leave no trace”
Junktown-JerkyVendor on
Please pick up your trash when you leave!
Blandy97 on
A ton of feathers or a ton of steel?
Ok-Journalist-2060 on
Is it from the whalers on the moon? They do carry a harpoon, you know.
Cortele on
Amarantin on the moon confirmed?
Lostmyfnusername on
I wonder how it looks now after radiation and static electricity. I know the flag was bleached white from the radiation alone.
Ornery_Old_Man on
That’s where the Eagle landed.
(ba-dum-tiss)
Niiai on
Space Angels confirmed. You move atheists!
bbbourb on
Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed.
barkingcat on
Moon chickens do they taste like earth chickens?
88Dubs on
For us late curiosity bloomers who slept through elementary science class and only got introduced to this today:
In millions of years, space archeologists are going to write so many papers on how that father got on the moon.Â
Pangloss_ex_machina on
No thing speaks more of mankind than littering.
StrangeCrunchy1 on
There should be a hammer there, too, unless they took that back with them. one of them, I can’t remember which, dropped a hammer and a feather to prove that regardless of mass, objects would fall at the same rate due to lack of air resistance in a vacuum, and they did; the feather and the hammer both fell as one.
islandwatchr on
It was Galileo, not Newton, who claimed and proved that all objects are accelerated by gravity at the same rate. I believe Newton came up with Gravity to represent what he couldn’t explain. But I think the most amazing thing is both these guys lived long before the vacuum chamber was even invented. They did not prove their ideas by dropping two objects in a vacuum chamber…a very common demonstration today of their theory. They had zero experience with weightlessness, lack of air resistance, flight, or outer space. And yet they got it mostly right, at least enough to get us to the moon. That is the most incredible example of the power of our minds. You can watch the clip of (I think Armstrong) dropping these two objects. Looks boring, and everybody assumes they saw what they were supposed to see. We easily become apathetic with the most amazing things. You think Galileo’s contemporaries thought he was so great? After working on their phds, lecturing and building an academic reputation and long careers on false ideas? Aristotelian physics was the standard for some 1500 years or so? No they did not. And people today are no different. Academics are not just waiting around to be proven wrong. So this little demo on the moon is certainly disputable, it is not rigorous. It would convince nobody and our willingness to watch it and say oh yeah, guess Galileo was right is only proof of our willingness to go along with accepted ideas. Look into Galileo’s ramp experiments and then decide if you are convinced.
Basic-Pair8908 on
There are birds on the moon?
ret255 on
So how it works if you expose such biological materials to such an environment like it’s on the Moon? Well perhaps it’s not as biological, like calcium and stuff but still. Will it survive for the long run that daily change of temperature and perhaps some cosmic rays?
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*NASA Apollo Hasselblad Kodak Raw Color Image Source:*
https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/15/7#AS15-88-11890
*View of Station Lunar Module (LM) and feather and geological hammer used for test of Galileo’s law of motion concerning falling bodies beside the LM. Image was taken during the third Extravehicular Activity (EVA 3) of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled TT, film type was S0168 (High Speed Color Exterior or Color Interior Ektachrome EF – High speed color reversal), 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 39 degrees.*
Just imagine, back in the day, you were a bird just flying around unassumingly. Just going about your bird life. Completely unaware that one of your feathers is going to be on the moon at some point.
The universe works in mysterious ways….
What a mesmerizing shot. I love it!
Shot with a Hasselblad. Nice!
But where’s the hammer?
Checkmate atheists!
Clearly a bird flew into the studio when they were faking the moon landing photos.
That’s a great song title, honestly
Pretty sure the astronaut did a gravity experiment, probably one of the basic experiments on the moon
This is so clearly faked, because we know that birds are not real.
The hammer: am I a joke to you?
Forrest Gump on the moon ?
Nasa isn’t familiar with the concept of “leave no trace”
Please pick up your trash when you leave!
A ton of feathers or a ton of steel?
Is it from the whalers on the moon? They do carry a harpoon, you know.
Amarantin on the moon confirmed?
I wonder how it looks now after radiation and static electricity. I know the flag was bleached white from the radiation alone.
That’s where the Eagle landed.
(ba-dum-tiss)
Space Angels confirmed. You move atheists!
Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed.
Moon chickens do they taste like earth chickens?
For us late curiosity bloomers who slept through elementary science class and only got introduced to this today:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo8TaPVsn9Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo8TaPVsn9Y)
In millions of years, space archeologists are going to write so many papers on how that father got on the moon.Â
No thing speaks more of mankind than littering.
There should be a hammer there, too, unless they took that back with them. one of them, I can’t remember which, dropped a hammer and a feather to prove that regardless of mass, objects would fall at the same rate due to lack of air resistance in a vacuum, and they did; the feather and the hammer both fell as one.
It was Galileo, not Newton, who claimed and proved that all objects are accelerated by gravity at the same rate. I believe Newton came up with Gravity to represent what he couldn’t explain. But I think the most amazing thing is both these guys lived long before the vacuum chamber was even invented. They did not prove their ideas by dropping two objects in a vacuum chamber…a very common demonstration today of their theory. They had zero experience with weightlessness, lack of air resistance, flight, or outer space. And yet they got it mostly right, at least enough to get us to the moon. That is the most incredible example of the power of our minds. You can watch the clip of (I think Armstrong) dropping these two objects. Looks boring, and everybody assumes they saw what they were supposed to see. We easily become apathetic with the most amazing things. You think Galileo’s contemporaries thought he was so great? After working on their phds, lecturing and building an academic reputation and long careers on false ideas? Aristotelian physics was the standard for some 1500 years or so? No they did not. And people today are no different. Academics are not just waiting around to be proven wrong. So this little demo on the moon is certainly disputable, it is not rigorous. It would convince nobody and our willingness to watch it and say oh yeah, guess Galileo was right is only proof of our willingness to go along with accepted ideas. Look into Galileo’s ramp experiments and then decide if you are convinced.
There are birds on the moon?
So how it works if you expose such biological materials to such an environment like it’s on the Moon? Well perhaps it’s not as biological, like calcium and stuff but still. Will it survive for the long run that daily change of temperature and perhaps some cosmic rays?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEgdZ3iEKA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYEgdZ3iEKA)
Here is a video of how it got there.
Oh my God, does this mean there’s birds that live on the moon?
Everything we thought we knew is wrong!