Questions tagged [reduced-gravity-sports]
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Why does Scott Manley say "the gravity of Europa is low enough that it's at the high end of what is possible in scuba with highly technical gear"?
Scott Manley's January 30, 2022 video Deep Space Radiation, Black Holes And Other Questions - Episode 14 discusses radiation levels and human survivability on Jovian satellites, and after ...
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Indoor games played by Astronauts in Manned spacecrafts [closed]
What are the possible indoor games can be played by Astronauts on Spacecrafts as part of recreation?
Playing cards, Chess, Table tennis, Scrabble etc.
Since no gravity in space, there could be limited ...
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Do astronauts play reduced gravity sports when folks on Earth aren't watching? Ever quasi-regularly? If so, what sports?
Astronauts on space stations routinely do things for their own entertainment and also things for public outreach/entertainment of folks on Earth.
Videos below are examples.
But I'm curious about any ...
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What benefits or new activities could take specific advantage of variable and/or low but not microgravity environment?
Just curious really. Considering that at some point in the future there might be rotational-based habitats, this would mean there would be easy access to variable gravity and/or low gravity ...
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Why do we never see astronauts doing breaststroke or the "Man from Atlantis" swimming movements, say, and thus swimming in air in free fall?
Why do we never see astronauts and others swimming in air in free fall?
The swimming strokes that work well under water on earth are the breast stroke and especially that "Man from Atlantis" ...
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Why does the Smithsonian have a replica of Alan Shepard's golf club, and the real one is at a golf museum?
Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the moon. He sneaked the modified head of a Wilson 6-iron golf club on board in a sock, and attached it to the handle of a lunar sample scoop. After ...
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Using a sling whirled around above the head, could someone on the moon throw a stone into orbit?
Similar to this question except not about using a machine: What payloads and launch speeds could a sling launcher get using modern materials on the Moon?
How fast could a stone be thrown using a sling ...
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What happens if you jump on a "spin ship"?
If you're on a spin ship, or rotating wheel space station, and you jump, then you're no longer being accelerated by the rotation. What would happen?
First, I'll establish some terms to make discussing ...
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How does one throw a boomerang in space? Does it return?
From today's BBC's Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk:
"We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth's atmosphere burn and create tiny ...
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What if you tried to fly a kite on Mars?
I wonder what kite flying might be like on Mars, in one per cent the atmospheric pressure of Earth, about two per cent the Earth's atmospheric density and 38% the Earth's surface gravity. Are there ...
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Riding a bike on the moon
I noticed that some astronauts do things in space they always wanted to do - like Chris Hadfield playing the guitar on the ISS.
I (like many other children ^^) wanted to become an astronaut pretty ...
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What is the difference between "body drag", "frictional drag" and "pressure drag" for astronaut or aerobot atmospheric locomotion in microgravity?
Complaints below my answer to Would a higher air pressure on the ISS or elsewhere make it easier to “swim” in microgravity? about my spherical-cow estimate of how fast an astronaut can accelerate by &...
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Do penitentes predicted on Europa only apply to snow-covered areas and not bare ice?
This answer to What would ice-skating be like on Europa? cautions that it might be difficult because there may be penitentes which Wikipedia explains are snow formations. It links to EarthSky.org's ...
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What would ice-skating be like on Europa?
Jovian moon Europa's icy surface is pretty flat and let's say astronauts would wear ice skates attached to their spacesuits, what would ice-skating be like on Europa? Due to Europa's very low gravity (...
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How can normal sports be modified for playing in micro-gravity conditions? [closed]
What new equipment would we use to play sports such as football, basket ball, etc., in micro-gravity?
What changes would we make to the games above?
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