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February 3, 2006

Strange But True!

Q. If football ever expands all the way to the Lunar League, what might Super Bowl on the moon be like?

A. Imagine the game played inside a huge atmospheric bubble dome to make up for the moon's lack of air, says Brooklyn College physicist Todd Holden. This way, air pressure will be the same as in Detroit or San Francisco, same old laws of physics, except that gravity here is about one-sixth of Earth's.


 
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