Apollo17 - Astronaut falls over in 1/6th gravity

Just a few thoughts (apologies for lack of structure).

Some will recognise the beginning of this video as the one used in Mythbusters. This is the clip that hoax believers claim shows wires above the astronauts in that programme. I say that's due to artifacts in Mythbuster's copy of this clip, since they don't appear in the original footage shown here, taken from the NASA documentary: Apollo 17, On The Shoulders of Giants, released in 1973.

Hence hoax believers claim actors were suspended on a wire to simulate the moon's gravity (1/6th earth's). They also claim that kicked up dust behaves as if in 1/6th gravity because the film is slowed down (67%) to make it match the gravity of the moon.

In this video clip, the astronaut falls down and rolls in the air and yet still appears to be in 1/6th earth's gravity throughout. How was that achieved using just 1 wire, and where was that 1 wire attached to make it possible? He also kicks up alot of dust and some equipment which matches the moon's gravity. Notice the speed of his leg movements as he tries to keep from falling! If we speed up this film so that the dust and equipment matches earth's gravity, then his movements would be ridiculously fast.

But the key point is, if they are using a wire per astronaut, then this film isn't being slowed down, so how can the kicked up dust and equipment match the moon's gravity? If they're not using wires and the film was slowed down only, then how did the astronauts run/move as if in 1/6th gravity? It's got to be one method or the other, it can't be both here on earth! But this video is possible if they were on the moon :-)

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Science & Technology

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• Apollo
• 17
• hoax
• Mythbusters