I pulled this form one of many 'humor' resources on the web. I've actually asked this question of people for over 20 years - and get nearly the same results. The person that submitted this had a .NASA.gov email addr Thus, I'm not alone in my discovery of credulous simplicity.... HEAVY BOOTS About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that, while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon. My jaw dropped a little. I blurted "What?!" Looking around the room, I saw that only my friend Mark and one other student looked confused by the TA's statement. The other 17 people just looked at me like "What's your problem?" "But a pen would fall if you dropped it on the Moon, just more slowly." I protested. "No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far away from the Earth's gravity." Think. Think. Aha! "You saw the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, didn't you?" I countered, "why didn't they float away?" "Because they were wearing heavy boots." he responded, as if this made perfect sense (remember, this is a Philosophy TA who's had plenty of logic classes). By then I realized that we were each living in totally different worlds, and did not speak each others language, so I gave up. As we left the room, my friend Mark was raging. "My God! How can all those people be so stupid?" I tried to be understanding. "Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it's not part of their basic view of the world, so they've forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake." To prove my point, we went back to our dorm room and began randomly selecting names from the campus phone book. We called about 30 people and asked each this question: 1. If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it a) float away, b) float where it is, or c) fall to the ground? About 47 percent got this question correct. Of the ones who got it wrong, we asked the obvious follow-up question: 2. You've seen films of the APOLLO astronauts walking around on the Moon, why didn't they fall off? About 20 percent of the people changed their answer to the first question when they heard this one! But the most amazing part was that about half of them confidently answered, "Because they were wearing heavy boots." I say, science education must be at an all time peak !!! Mine person experience is the younger the person, the heavier the moon boots....
You have to remember that they can not only vote they can also drive and reproduce witch make them a triple threat.
How did they get that rover on the moon ? and if they needed a rocket to get off of earths gravity , boosters were only used to slow the landing decent but also enough force to break away from the moons gravity ?? They must of left the "Heavy Boots" on the moon !!
The worst thing about this trend is that eventually what people "think" eventually becomes "fact" in this day and age. A small example is the prefix "giga". It's almost never pronounced correctly. It's based on the word "giant" and so should be pronounced "jiggah" not "giggah". This is middle school science stuff so it reminds me how uneducated the masses are and even now those in technical fields that should know better. Even Doc got it right in Back to the Future. It's always amusing when I get "corrected" for pronouncing it correctly. I usually just explain the root word and ask them if they also pronounce "giant" as "guyant". Another fun one is "vegan" since it's based on "vegetable".
Giga is not based off of giant...it comes from ancient greek, as does giant. All fine and good except ancient greek doesn't have a soft g...
If gravity left the moon then it would have dissolved into space. The fact that it has gravity is evidence enough that the moon exists. The larger the body the greater the gravity.
Turns out we are both correct, though since the 1960's "soft g" has been standard for science and engineering. Likely why all my teachers and professors pronounced it that way. In the UK only 1% of the population follows that convention, so it's variable around the world. "In English, the prefix giga can be pronounced /ˈɡɪɡə/ (a hard g as in giggle), or /ˈdʒɪɡə/ (a soft g as in giant, which shares giga's Ancient Greek root, but not pronunciation).[4] This latter pronunciation was formalised within the United States in the 1960s and 1980s with the issue by the US National Bureau of Standards of pronunciation guides for the metric prefixes.[5] A prominent example is found in the pronunciation of gigawatts in the 1985 film Back to the Future. ... " " ... In 1998, a poll by the phonetician John C. Wells found that 84% of Britons preferred the pronunciation of gigabyte starting with /ɡɪ/ (as in gig), 9% with /dʒɪ/ (as in jig), 6% with /ɡaɪ/ (guy), and 1% with /dʒaɪ/ (as in giant).[10]"
Not quite. Gravity depends on the mass of the body, not the size. (But it does explain 3M-TA3's observation.)
Actually, to be specifically correct, it should read “ The Larger the Mass, the greater the Gravity.”
Or " The larger the MASS, the richer the pope " And; k is as in BLM's ' kill-a-whitey ' m is as in ' 1 maga march has a million republican insurrectionists ' g in 50ghz is pronounced 'ouch! a billion ouches!! curse you 5G !!! ' p in 1 pfile is as in 'the number of politicians in the Epstein-Isle file' ...
