[SI] Happy Anniversary Shoot-In

"TP" wrote in message

Tony Polson i presume.

"TP" wrote in message

Tony Polson i presume.

"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

B

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
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"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved
a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

erm... like on the moon?

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved
a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

erm... like on the moon?

"Mr Jessop" writes:

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved
a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

erm... like on the moon?

Close enough, yes. Why? I very much doubt that anyone has shipped a
heavy ladle to the moon, were you perhaps referring to something else?

B

"Mr Jessop" writes:

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved
a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

erm... like on the moon?

Close enough, yes. Why? I very much doubt that anyone has shipped a
heavy ladle to the moon, were you perhaps referring to something else?

B

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved
a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

B

They did it in a vacuum, at some university back East many years ago....Only
it was to test psychokinetics, or some such thing, and not Galileo....They
wanted to see if mental power could make a feather (I think they used card
chips) miss the mark when it fell three stories while students tried to
force it off track by mental power alone. In thousands of trials, no one,
nor any group of people could make it miss the mark In every case, the card
chip, in a vacuum, fell with the acceleration of gravity the three stories
and hit its target, which was a tiny hole through which it went, only to be
returned three stories up to the starting point again.....As I remember,
they did this at Duke University.......

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
...
"Mr Jessop" writes:

i downloaded a physics experiment. It was a heavy ladle and a feather.
Both dropped to the ground at the same speed. i.e rapidly. This proved
a
theory made by galileo i believe.

Being more sensible, the experiment he described was two identically
sized spheres of different materials. FOr what it's worth, unless you
have a very odd ladle, you should have seen a very large different in
the two falling times, unless you were working in a vacuum.

B

They did it in a vacuum, at some university back East many years ago....Only
it was to test psychokinetics, or some such thing, and not Galileo....They
wanted to see if mental power could make a feather (I think they used card
chips) miss the mark when it fell three stories while students tried to
force it off track by mental power alone. In thousands of trials, no one,
nor any group of people could make it miss the mark In every case, the card
chip, in a vacuum, fell with the acceleration of gravity the three stories
and hit its target, which was a tiny hole through which it went, only to be
returned three stories up to the starting point again.....As I remember,
they did this at Duke University.......

"Bruce Murphy" wrote in message
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Close enough, yes. Why? I very much doubt that anyone has shipped a
heavy ladle to the moon, were you perhaps referring to something else?

B

Didn't they ship one up there so Neil Armstrong could sip his heavy soup?