If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it .....

If you're standing on the Moon holding a pen, and you let go, will it ....

  • float away

    Votes: 12 7.4%

  • fall to the ground?

    Votes: 133 81.6%

  • Float where it is

    Votes: 14 8.6%

  • I dont know

    Votes: 4 2.5%
  • Total voters
    163
  • Poll closed .
Mildly interesting read, but is there a point/lesson I'm missing?

Last line is lol.
 
Cut us some slack. Everyone here knows it's answer B, right?
 
Oh yeah, the point is Americans are stupid.
 
Shakermaker said:
Cut us some slack. Everyone here knows it's answer B, right?
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"47 percent got this question correct." ..now I dont think we'll be anywhere near that and the nature of the poll kinda makes determining the answer fairly easy. but I'm curious to see if anyone actually believes this. If I really wanted to point out people for being stupid I would have made the poll public ...besides a few people here and there I dont think hl2.net is collectively stupid .... at least most days
 
Not necessarily only Americans. Lots of people are stupid.
 
I voted for the first answer. I don't have time to read the damn article.
 
Remus said:
What was your reasoning for choosing that answer?
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I'm not entirely sure. To me it's thinking that the objects on the moon are too far away from the Earth to be affected by its gravity because their own mass is considerably small for that distance.

Other than that, I just guessed with the naive assumption that the moon's gravity isn't strong enough to pull a light object like a pen to it straight on, and will instead be affected by the smallest movements exerted on it when it's dropped.

Why, am I wrong? I probably am, but I don't care. I didn't get to learn space sciences very long during my GED studies.

EDIT: I didn't mean to say light object like a pen, I meant to say an object with a small mass like a pen.
 
read the article, it's short and explains it

try not to discuss the answer; it may taint people's reasoning as to what the correct answer may be
 
Fine, I'm stupid. Hahaha. Laugh it up Vegeta.
 
Raziaar said:
Fine, I'm stupid. Hahaha. Laugh it up Vegeta.
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"Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it's not part of their basic view of the world, so they've forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake."
 
CptStern said:
"Mark, they knew this stuff at one time, but it's not part of their basic view of the world, so they've forgotten it. Most people could probably make the same mistake."
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I honestly thought this was a trick question thread, because it was posted by you.

I don't care if any of you believe me, but I voted how I did because I thought it was a trick question, and went against my initial thought/belief which was the second option as a result. And then I tried to justify my answer thinking I was right.
 
fine, dont sweat it man, no one thinks you're stupid. I had the luxury of reading the story before being asked the question and I'm sure I would have second guessed bmy response because the answer is obvious that it couldnt be correct. you gotta learn to not be so defensive. who cares if a bunch of wankers and some guy who's mother obviously cuts his hair think you're dumb?
 
Hmmm wasn't this question on some kindergarten quiz I took... right after "what is 2 + 2"?


I THINK SOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
 
Meh. There are a lot of obvious things that people get wrong. For instance, if you ask people where most of the matter composing a tree came from, most will say the ground.

But, that is incorrect.
 
I highly doubt a philosophy professor would make that mistake. I smell bullshit.
 
I am discussing the answer.
Discuss discuss
 
Raziaar said:
Why, am I wrong? I probably am, but I don't care. I didn't get to learn space sciences very long during my GED studies.
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You do know that the same physics that apply here on Earth do as well in space?

It's like when I hear green politicians talk about radiation of nuclear power plants. They honoustly believe there's a difference between natural radiation (the good radiation) and what is emitted after nuclear fission (obviously the bad one).
 
Insano said:
You do know that the same physics that apply here on Earth do as well in space?
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Yes... I know that.

That doesn't mean I resisted second guessing myself and wondering if such a simple poll could be a trick question though. There's lots of crazy things that are perfectly scientifically explainable that I certainly don't know a single thing about. I figured there might be something else to this, and so I picked an answer contrary to what I perceived as potentially too obvious.
 
:(

;(

I'm too embarrassed. I can never post on these forums again!

As I told vegeta... embarrassment doesn't bother me. It's SCIENCE EMBARRASSMENT that bothers me!
 
I lol'd at this thread. Moons have gravity too : P aha.

I don't know if people recall the feather and rock test that the astronauts proportedly did, but a small rock and a feather fell at nearly exactley the same speed when dropped apparently.
 
clarky003 said:
I lol'd at this thread. Moons have gravity too : P aha.

I don't know if people recall the feather and rock test that the astronauts proportedly did, but a small rock and a feather fell at nearly exactley the same speed when dropped apparently.
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Because there is no atmosphere.
 
I'm a physics student so I'm really glad I didnt't second guess myself before answering. Would have been really stupid.
 
please make the poll public so i can know which idiots to put on ignore
 
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