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April 27, 2001

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. If the professional dance troupe “Out of This World” ever tours the colonized moon, what happens to leaps, turns, tapping in one-sixth Earth’s gravity? Would dance get off the ground there?

    A. Book them at the new Lunar Theater — the one with the VERY tall ceiling, because the same leg strength for a two-foot, .7-second Earth jump will take a moon dancer 12 feet up and floating (atmospheric bubble) four full seconds, says Dickinson College physicist Kenneth L. Laws. Just imagine the tricks that might be performed before landing!


     
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