Science Friday

A little science for you: Astronaut David Scott drops a feather, and a hammer, on the Moon, to verify Galileo’s theory that, in the absence of atmospheric friction, objects of varying weight or mass will fall at the same rate as each other.

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Here’s hoping the weekend falls more like a feather for you, than a hammer.*


* I don’t even know what that means.

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