Rosencrantz… or Guildenstern would have enjoyed this.
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“So, we’ll drop these at the same time and see what happens.”
(feather hits first by a wide margin)
“Huh… that’s… very strange, I…”
(zombie skeleton of Galileo bursts out from below the moon’s surface)
Zombie Galileo: Fools! At last the incantation is complete! Arise, my army of the dead! NOW IS OUR TIME!
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What, one experiment? They need to drop them at least a dozen times (with proper statistics) before I can even begin to accept it.
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And none of that “I’ll drop-em both at the same time!” stuff. Humans are imperfect bio-machines. We need a robot that hasn’t been hacked, and accurate velocity measurement. I should get a grant.
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That’s why you don’t use Mjölnir for this experiment.
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There’s a lot of pedantry going on here, for an experiment with one significant digit of precision.
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I wish the video went on for a bit longer, so we could see how he tried to pick the hammer back up.
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I wonder if that falcon’s feather is still up there, on the moon!
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Those are some impressive doors!
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One of the reasons why, when the great Stanley Kubrick was asked to help with faking the moon landings, he refused until NASA agreed to let him shoot on location.
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Watch the Brian Cox clip below, where they replicate the test in a vacuum chamber. Even though the outcome is never in doubt, everyone seems honestly thrilled to have it playing out before their very eyes. It’s wonderful.
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The difference is bigger when you drop them on opposite sides of the moon.
But you have to bring a flashlight.
Don’t forget to push the red button at the end of each comic!
“Sharks are way too rare in this part of the world to be about to eat me.”
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