Japanese Astronaut to Throw Boomerang in Space
What do astronauts actually do in space after you spend billions of dollars training them and sending them in a shuttle to space, they goof around and play boomerang.
Japanese astronaut Takao Doi is set to throw a boomerang inside the International Space Station in March to test how it flies, after receiving training from a world boomerang champion, it has been learned.
It is thought that gravity is necessary for a boomerang to return to the throwing spot, but it remains unknown how boomerangs fly in space.
So what do you people think? Would the boomerang fly up, down, return back to Doi or just drift off into space?
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i dont think it’ll fly back to him. after all , it will only work if there is air right? but it’ll be fun though. when you’re in space you can do all sorts of dumb stuff and people like us can only go “wooow, how i wish i was the one doing that..”
dude INSIDE the ISS.
facepalm
why dont they spend the money of more important experiments or events? last time, malaysia space traveller want to make “teh tarik” in space… what an idiot.
roflmao, i dont beleive anyone would fund such a dumb idea…….tis cool tho
I’m sure he’s going to do actual research, too, up there. Just. . right before he goes to bed, he can put an epic video on YouTube — the first boomerang in space.
Although I think it will go upwards in general. All objects are affected by gravity at all times. The spinning boomerang generates lift from the air that fights the pull of gravity and keeps it airborne. Without that pulling force, I suppose the lift force will shoot it straight upwards as it flies.
…But I didn’t know the ISS had that kind of room. Isn’t it just narrow corridors? I thought boomerangs travel in a wide arc to get back to you .. not in a straight line like a yo-yo.