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		dctoedt on Oct 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding ... > no air resistance (nowhere on this planet?) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott repeated the experiment on the lunar surface with a hammer and a feather. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Leaning_Tower_of_P... (includes a link to a video clip; jump to about 0:35).

Cyph0n on Oct 5, 2017 [–]

I am aware of that famous experiment on the moon. However, my point was that the law of gravitation was developed centuries before such an experiment could possibly be performed.

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