Video: Astronauts Falling Down and Finding It Difficult to Get Up, on the Moon

pretty cool

I love how black space looks. It sounds weird to say that but it's the blackest black. It's kinda haunting.

One of those cats didn't fall. He was trying to do the worm in that bulky space suit. If I were one of the few people to visit another world, I'd try to bust a move too.

I'd never thought about it until watching that, but it would be incredibly weird to try to get up or stop yourself from falling when all of your coordination skills were developed for decades under completely different circumstances, and your extremities aren't moving the way you expect them to.

The bulky backpack wouldn't help either. You still have all the inertia, but without much of the stability that Earth gravity gives us.

I saw this as very dangerous, especially around equipment that has ends or edges. If your suit was damaged by a rock or punctured on equipment, you would lose air pressure very rapidly (though not necessarily instantly depending on the damage).

regardless, it is an interesting video, and something I wouldn't have considered. props for the find popsci

Fy = -Gm1m2/r^2 + k(x-xo)

Thanks,
-Tony

wow. where'd this footage come from?!?

Should have called life alert. Joking aside i wish i can go to the moon.

Why now release this video?

Why wasn't this video release back in December 1972 with the Apollo 17 landings?

Did NASA and our government embarrass to show it not easy to be in space or to walk about on the moon and felt the USA people would not understand this?

Where was this video being stored?

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

@GundamZa13anya - I was hoping I would get to say that :(

It is the clumsiness that confirms our astronauts were on the moon, the moon dust kicked up by their feet did not linger in the vacuum of space.

It is the strong constant pulling down on Earth, that give us a sense of control and we have grown coordination too. On the moon, we try to over compensate in all our motions.

The gravity pull on the moon is 1/6 of that of the Earth. The astronaut’s movements look natural to me, considering this.

My comments were questions. It is with questions we learn and grow. Maybe my questions were wrong; there is learning in that too.

I have no idea why the "reported to site admin" was clicked.
I guess that same person must approve of all the spam that has arrived all over POPSCI. I do not see any clicking going on there.

Just so you know. I feel USA, NASA and the astronauts did go to the moon. I was just bringing up the questions for all the naysayers.

I like and approve of these videos!

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

I'm glad you "feel" that NASA did go to the moon. But feelings aside, the evidence of their mission is pretty difficult to dispute. Since about half of the commenters on PopSci are conspiracy nuts who pollute every article with nonsense about spiritual space travel and lizard aliens, your post was understood to belong to that group. Which is probably why someone felt the need to report your comment.

@Siromar,

Do you know the definition of ‘Knowing’?
It is a firsthand account of something, a first calculation of mathematics, chemistry and so on. It being extremely close to the source of truth; perhaps lucky enough to feel it in your own fingers or have the moon dust at your boots.
Only a few of us in life have firsthand accounts of wonderful things of being to the moon; understanding the true speed of light and the earth is round.

The rest of us, take it on faith, the scientist are presenting us with real idea and facts!

It is in that trust or leap of faith that many get led down a path of untruth and misinformation. Sometimes the misinformation is presented so clearly or it just seems to fit common sense, we toss out the facts!

I ask real questions. It is ok to ask real questions. I feel we went to the moon, because I trust USA, NASA not to lie to me. But in ‘knowing’, I do not know we went to the moon.
So goes the doubters, and yes crazies that create other ideas.

My questions are in fact real and with answering for the benefit of the doubters to bring them out of the dark and closer to the light.

Lots of really smart people read POPSCI. They could provide links or information, if they desired. Of course, maybe they do not want to get into a depate with a crazy and I understand this too. But you think, they may want to help the crazy too. We are all in life together. ;)

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Science sees no further than what it can sense.
Religion sees beyond the senses.

Check out my NASA TRIBUTE, I did the same thing a while ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmxJ2_fmZBs

Between the backpack shifting his center of mass and the reduced friction (due to reduced Normal Force), I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.

I once read about it that when we build colonies on the moon, that we'll have to take in consideration of the gravity and our inertia, as you watch the video, making right angle turns means inertia's resistance to move in that direction, thus you taking a tumble on your own weight. Plus running won't happen as easily anymore.

If I ever go into space, living in a colony, I would be inside the cabins with a Hawaiian T-shirt on like in all those space movies (you know the ones with that guy wearing a golf hat and smoking whilst drinking coffee with some whiskey and a 5 o'clock shadow. That guy)Anyway I'd put laxative in someones drink, then laugh at that rookie trying to make it to the restroom down the hall with all the corners and such. He'd fall and trip allover himself.

What a mess. However on a serious note: we would constantly be walking funny due to the gravity, hopping, having to lean in on our turns, floors may have to be made of magnets or Velcro for all that matter.

" Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein

a coversation between lance armstrong and buzz aldrin armstrong"help, i've fallen and i can't get up" buzz "you need life alert"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

THPS2 had moon physics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IysrvlWbB2U

Funny video.

THPS2 was one of the best games on PS1.

Thanks,
-Tony