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Forget moon walking, lunar visitors. Try horizontal running

By KASPERA
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Four people stand in the middle of a cylindrical structure, looking up at a cloudy sky, in preparation for a moon running experiment. A long black bungee cord stretches down into the structure from a nearly 40 meter tall crane.
Before running along the Wall of Death, scientists donned a harness connected to a bungee cord. This effectively reduced their weight to mimic the moon’s gravity.Alberto Minetti Lab

These data let them calculate the runners’ velocity and estimate just how much

It was a drizzly day, last year, when two researchers first took on the Wall of Death. This amusement park attraction near Parma, Italy, looks something like a giant wooden …read more

Source:: Science Explores

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