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9 Comments to "Japan’s Contribution to Space Science: Boomerang Does Return When Thrown in Zero Gravity!"
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MrPumpernickel
March 25th, 2008 at
5:20 am
Yes…but how about in the vacuum of space?
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Nostra
March 25th, 2008 at
5:50 am
Well it wouldn’t work in the vacuum of space because there is not any air molecule resistance to work with.. I believe that is the reason why boomerangs work - I may be entirely wrong, and they may depend solely on centripetal force…
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K!P
March 25th, 2008 at
7:48 am
is there enough room to trow one in the ISS? i always need a big field..
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SkipFrehly
March 25th, 2008 at
8:38 am
It’s not so much an air molecule that a boomerang needs, but any kind of friction. If you had a good enough arm, a boomerarng would work underwater, underground, or in the atmosphere of any gas giant.
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DexterSmurdley
March 25th, 2008 at
11:40 am
This is actually the third time a boomerang has been thrown in space. A boomerang was thrown in microgravity in an atmosphere aboard Spacelab (1992 by German astronaut Ulf Meerbold), aboard Mir (1997 by the French Astronaut Jean-François Clervoy) and now the International Space Station (2008 by Japanese astronaut Takao Doi). Info from boom saint Ted Bailey.
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VonSkippy
March 25th, 2008 at
12:01 pm
Well at least he didn’t kill anything with THAT experiment (for scientific purposes of course).
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oakling
March 25th, 2008 at
4:13 pm
yeah! do your research, astronaut guy!
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Knife Knut
March 25th, 2008 at
6:48 pm
He used a miniature boomerang inside the space station which is pressurized with air.
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Aramax
March 26th, 2008 at
3:09 am
WOOOot?
I can’t wait to try this when I go up into space.
=D
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