The human body is going at such high altitudes, because pole vault is like 20 feet ish for world record. If you're airborne six times longer, you can have to leave the ground sooner. The other thing here is we've seen the Fosby flop as the go to technique to get a world record here on Earth. Do we think that that technique could apply to that technique going that high on the moon with a jump?
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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