# Taking a Leak on the Moon

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-leak-on-the-moon/532133>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-leak-on-the-moon/532133 "2010-03-11T18:05:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-leak-on-the-moon/532133/81 "2010-03-24T19:19:56Z")

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I think **KarlGauss** was being facetious, as indicated by the smiley. It was a deliberate misunderstanding for humorous intent.

**Lestrade** said:

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> The fact that the hammer and feather hit together shows that they were in a vacuum. You could estimate the force of gravity by counting how many frames it took for them to hit the ground, an exercise left to the viewer.

But if NASA is faking it by slowing down the film, then that wouldn’t work.

Which goes back to the original idea where the astronaut has to do something visually that synchs with something independently reproducible on Earth. Such as timing fist pumps to some common musical score.

But then those sneaking NASA folk would know this, so they would have the astronaut change his fist pump rate to just the right amount so when they slow down the film, it synchs with that song.

_sigh_ That’s why conspiracy theorists are never beatable. They can just project a bigger conspiracy.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-leak-on-the-moon/532133/82 "2010-03-24T20:44:34Z")

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The thing is, who in 1969-1971 would ever have thought this moon hoax nuttery would pop up decades later?

It’s hard to plan for future insanity.

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**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-a-leak-on-the-moon/532133/83 "2010-03-25T12:25:31Z")

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> [@Irishman](#):
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> **Lestrade** said:
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> > The fact that the hammer and feather hit together shows that they were in a vacuum. You could estimate the force of gravity by counting how many frames it took for them to hit the ground, an exercise left to the viewer.
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> But if NASA is faking it by slowing down the film, then that wouldn’t work.

Very true, determining the number of frames per second is left to the sanity of the viewer.

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