Comments on: Japanese Astronaut: Boomerang Actually Comes Back In Space http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/ Embracing Japanese POP Culture Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:42:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Boomerang in Space Video | alafista.com http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-4203 Boomerang in Space Video | alafista.com Thu, 01 May 2008 03:33:20 +0000 http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/#comment-4203 [...] while back I talked about the Japanese astronaut that went up into space just to throw a boomerang and discovered that it actually flew back to him just like on [...] [...] while back I talked about the Japanese astronaut that went up into space just to throw a boomerang and discovered that it actually flew back to him just like on [...]

]]> By: Panther http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 Panther Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:27:45 +0000 http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/#comment-2767 Gravitational forces in theory stretch forever into space and just get smaller and smaller. In reality thanks to intervening massive bodies (massive being bodies of mass and not "huge") that also have gravitational attraction, the gravitational forces thereby cancel one another out at vast distances. However, this is within the Earth's gravitational reach, so certainly, there are enough gravitational forces, albeit very small compared to the one we experience at the surface daily, to cause some Newtonian physics to hold true. Though, I must admit, even if I had known earlier I would have said it would most likely not return. It would be far better if they could show a clip of how he did it. Gravitational forces in theory stretch forever into space and just get smaller and smaller. In reality thanks to intervening massive bodies (massive being bodies of mass and not “huge”) that also have gravitational attraction, the gravitational forces thereby cancel one another out at vast distances. However, this is within the Earth’s gravitational reach, so certainly, there are enough gravitational forces, albeit very small compared to the one we experience at the surface daily, to cause some Newtonian physics to hold true.

Though, I must admit, even if I had known earlier I would have said it would most likely not return. It would be far better if they could show a clip of how he did it.

]]> By: Alafista http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-2763 Alafista Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/#comment-2763 @ Dee: maybe they will use this finding to develop new space technologies. @ Deranged: I think alot of skeptics including me guessed wrong. @ Dee: maybe they will use this finding to develop new space technologies.

@ Deranged: I think alot of skeptics including me guessed wrong.

]]> By: Deranged http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-2712 Deranged Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:29:10 +0000 http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/#comment-2712 I was at a conference and many of the ideas on boomerangs were smashed there... Apparently, it is the inertia creating the returning effect not any lift or upthrust caused by the revolution or something to that effect... I just assumed the gravitational forces that far into space wouldnt be effective enough... Seems I was wrong... I was at a conference and many of the ideas on boomerangs were smashed there… Apparently, it is the inertia creating the returning effect not any lift or upthrust caused by the revolution or something to that effect… I just assumed the gravitational forces that far into space wouldnt be effective enough… Seems I was wrong…

]]> By: Dee http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-2701 Dee Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:37:31 +0000 http://www.alafista.com/2008/03/21/japanese-astronaut-boomerang-actually-comes-back-in-space/#comment-2701 whoa last time i said it was dumb but now i think its amazing! ....ahem |-o-| TIE fighter heehee whoa last time i said it was dumb but now i think its amazing! ….ahem |-o-| TIE fighter heehee

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