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In article <4586@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>, snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes...
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>    Well  ,  it  sounds  like the willingness to cling to some kind of la-la
>   land belief that our  government  wouldn't  lie  to  us  about  the  moon
>   landings  won't  just  melt  in  the  face of straightforward ,elementary
>   mathematics ,and piles of circumstantial evidence. I guess I'll just have
>   to use even bigger piles of circumstantial evidence and MORE  math.  Here
>   goes:

Well, since if the Moon's gravity were 0.64G rather than around 0.16G, this
would mean the Moon is 4 times as massive than it allegedly is as we know
its diameter.  But if this were the case, the Earth-Moon mass ratio would be
quite different, thus the barycenter would move, tides would be quite
different, the motion of the Earth-Moon system around the sun would be
different,  and so forth, none of which correspond to observed information.

>    In one sixth gravity , a 180 pound man would weigh  a  mere  30  pounds.
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>                                6/180 = 30

Hmm.  You screwed up the math here.  This may give some insight, perhaps you
screwed up the math elsewhere and this is what has confused you.

As to jumping in spacesuits on the moon, don't forget that those suits are
probably rather stiff.  Probably the jumps are quite poor compared to what
would be possible if they wore normal clothing with lead-filled backpacks
with the same mass as the suits.

-Mike