Re: The Apollo moon landings

Jim Pennino wrote:

In sci.physics David Canzi <dmcanzi@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

On 6/7/25 18:23, Bertitaylor wrote:

Arindam remembers his father wondering after watching the Apollo moon
landing video in 1969, why they did not jump up at least three feet. He
also thought they could at least have thrown a stone up and thus show it
falling slowly.

>
When they jump, once their feet leave the surface, their acceleration is
determined by the gravity of whatever they jumped up from.  If you
measure how high they jumped and how long it took to get to that height,
you can calculate their acceleration due to gravity and compare it with
the acceleration due to gravity at Earth's surface.
>

 True enough. However, all their time, and especially during the first
mission, was tightly scheduled and there was no item on the schedule to
perform hijinks.
 

Also, I don't recall anyone at the time worrying that people would not believe this was happening.
Given the tens of thousands who built the vehicle, the tens of thousands who saw its takeoff with their own eyes, the tracking of the vehicle by various countries and even amateurs, the thought that people would be crazy enough to say "this didn't happen", simply didn't occur.
Not that we didn't have crazy people in those days.  But in that distant past they confined their gibbering to communist conspiracies, demon-infested politicians, and being Napoleon.
Any day now I expect to hear of a "D-day" didn't happen conspiracy.
William Hyde