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Physics of Professor Splash's Jump into 1 foot of water

Ok, I this just came up and I had to write something about it (even though I have tons of other things to do). Here is a video of a guy jumping 35 feet into a pool of water only 1 foot deep.

How does this work? Read More...

Acceleration of an Apollo Moon Jump

I am really not sure why I started to look at this, but here is a video of the famous “jump salute” from Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.

It seems there is some discussion about this video in terms of fake or not fake moon landings. I don’t want to get involved in that whole mess, so I will just see if I can measure the gravitational field on the moon. Read More...