If you toss the thing the wrong direction, you miss this by a mile and it keeps going forever. It becomes almost like archery with a bean bag. If you miss and you hit someone's spacesuit, that's not a very nice day. I'm sure the space is... How far away would you want the target to be if it were archery? On a planet or on a moon with less than satmosphir, less gravity. What would you do? Would you like ... I mean, we've heard... Yeah. You really are a catness.
Could you play Quidditch on Jupiter? Javelin on Mars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer fan questions about low-gravity physics, the weight of Thor’s hammer, aerodynamics and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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