- 13 Jul 2004 19:38
#380994
No it won't. Firstly, there is no AIR on the moon, thus there are no convection currents, which means that unless something is physicaly pushed by something, not air, it won't go moving at all. If you were to kick some dirt on Earth, that dirt would go flying and would blow about an billow- this is because the dirt particles are caught in the movement of air stirred up by your kicking. This does not happen on the moon.
Secondly, the escape velocity of the moon is 1/6 that of Earth... that's still far too much for one to simply "throw" or "push" something off the face of the moon. And since the moon HAS GRAVITY you cannot have a constant orbit unless *duh* orbiting the moon.
Thus, *if* you stuck the flag into the surface of the moon, some dirt would get pushed aside. That's it. No flying magic orbiting dirt or whatever the hell you're talking about.
NationaliDemocratiSociali wrote:Ok, this statement is very understandable, but still, if you stick a flag onto the rocky soil of the moon, won't the soil fly into the air from the impact of the stick with the rocks, and thus sending the small pieces of the moon-rock into "flight" at a constant speed?
No it won't. Firstly, there is no AIR on the moon, thus there are no convection currents, which means that unless something is physicaly pushed by something, not air, it won't go moving at all. If you were to kick some dirt on Earth, that dirt would go flying and would blow about an billow- this is because the dirt particles are caught in the movement of air stirred up by your kicking. This does not happen on the moon.
Secondly, the escape velocity of the moon is 1/6 that of Earth... that's still far too much for one to simply "throw" or "push" something off the face of the moon. And since the moon HAS GRAVITY you cannot have a constant orbit unless *duh* orbiting the moon.
Thus, *if* you stuck the flag into the surface of the moon, some dirt would get pushed aside. That's it. No flying magic orbiting dirt or whatever the hell you're talking about.
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