Christopher ([info]cambler) wrote in [info]astronomy,
2006-12-20 13:10:00

In space...

So I'll take the heat for admitting that I'm eating lunch at McDonald's today. Mea culpa.

I sit here, however, looking at the bag in which my daughter received her "happy meal." It has all kinds of facts and games about space. Hey, this is great, I thought, raising the awareness of kids about how cool space is.

Until I saw this nice factoid:

"You can jump six times higher in space!"

It is accompanied by an image of a young girl, arms and legs splayed as if she were in microgravity.

Oh, well. It is a fast food joint, after all.

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[info]undrthesurface

December 20 2006, 22:22:20 UTC 5 years ago

lol

[info]ex_ellimist

December 21 2006, 00:01:24 UTC 5 years ago

I guess it means "on the moon" because of the 1/6th gravity of the Earth thing.

[info]cambler

December 21 2006, 00:13:38 UTC 5 years ago

Sure, you know that and I know that, but that's *not* what McDonald's seems to know!

[info]melodyd

December 21 2006, 01:33:02 UTC 5 years ago

Hahahahaha

Thanks for that :p

[info]cultureofdoubt

December 21 2006, 13:02:26 UTC 5 years ago

I had a teacher at school who did almost the opposite. They insisted that people on the moon moved round slowly and jumped really high 'because of the zero gravity'. At least he was a drama teacher though, so it wasn't exactly his field.

Oh and don't get me started on the physics teacher who totally screwed up explaining how the forces on things in orbit work by insisting there was a force in the direction of motion, and when I tried to explain there was only the inward force due to gravity only got it after a lengthy explanation and then said "but I'll keep teaching it my way because it's easier to understand like that". *blink*

[info]t3dy

December 21 2006, 22:47:17 UTC 5 years ago

i was gonne flame you viciously for eating at mcdonald's, but 'tis the season. so have a happy secular holiday.

they're wrong about space though. you can only jump 5 times higher. no more than that.
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