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Old 19-May-2007, 03:01 PM
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I made a remark to my boss that "if we can make it to the moon" than we can do this....well, his response to me was "we didn't go to the moon", "if there is no gravity on the moon then how did the rover not float away?"....now this had me scratching my head.....why did the men not float away, is there absolutately no gravity at all on the moon, did we really land on the moon....all these questions. I have done some research today on line but can't find anything that can give me the "explanation" as to how the rover stays on the moon surface.
Did your "research" extend as far as typing "gravity of the moon" into Google, which gives 1,360,000 articles?
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I know the men used weights so why not the rover, right?
Wrong. How do you 'know' something this incorrect? How would the use of weights help in zero gravity?

It's stuff like this that makes me despair.
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