Tyson: "It's not a literal weight. It's a... He really needs the power of honesty and integrity to lift it" If we were able to have a high jump event on the moon, what height do you think people could get to? And also, because it's stuck in track and field, how big a field would we need if we had javelin on the moon as well?
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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