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- knight666, on 05/05/2008, -23/+229Look out everyone!
It's the Bury Brigade! - DarkLance, on 05/05/2008, -25/+205makes me jealous, I want to throw stuff in space.
- fuzzlog, on 05/05/2008, -18/+181No sign of intelligence in any of these comments, none what so ever.
HE IS NOT IN A VACUUM. The astronaut is in a mix of air so HE CAN BREATHE.
STOP SAYING HE IS THROWING A BOOMERANG IN A VACUUM DUMB RETARDED *****. For once the description of the video teaches you something, read it. - MattFromSeattle, on 05/05/2008, -18/+176Dearly beloved, we've gathered here to say our goodbyes to the above comments. Alas, we hardly knew them before they were gone and buried, may their souls rest in peace.
- haydentech, on 05/05/2008, -2/+115Huh? How that be more interesting? You'd watch it fly away and never come back.
- Bladwor, on 05/05/2008, -1/+104Honestly, if you're up there and you have a boomerang, you might as well.
- macbth, on 05/05/2008, -0/+94I just want to go to space
- BeforeSputnik, on 05/05/2008, -27/+106Sum of all comments: the experiment only tested the effects of gravity on a boomerang, not the effects of being in a vacuum. Because the boomerang relies on air to make it's return, it would be more interesting to see the experiment done in space.
- scojerroc, on 05/05/2008, -2/+71no, it really wouldnt be interesting at all. the action of a boomerang in a vacuum is pretty easy to predict.
- NanoStuff, on 05/05/2008, -11/+79Mission accomplished. Thousands of years of human civilization, and now we've finally proved it.
Space exploration is officially concluded. - dOOBiEx213, on 05/05/2008, -0/+47but will it come back around the other side and prove that space is indeed round?
- sesstreets, on 05/05/2008, -2/+48BUT ITS IN SPACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
- simpleid, on 05/05/2008, -1/+43youtube users need to stay over at youtube
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -34/+70***** RIAA
- DickInyerhole, on 05/05/2008, -13/+48Digg cemetery: proving that no one on this site has a mind of their own.
- Seften, on 05/05/2008, -9/+41It's a Rickroll.
- WallnutBoy, on 05/05/2008, -2/+34We can breathe in space, they just don't want us to escape.
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 05/05/2008, -1/+29I'm not so sure about that. I've always thought that the rotation and the shape of the boomerang caused lower air pressure on one side, causing it to turn. Just like how an airplane achieves lift. In that case, the boomerang wouldn't curve in space.
- toxicityj, on 05/05/2008, -2/+28God forbid these people take a break and do something remotely fun. I knew when I saw the video there'd be at least one jackass bitching about how they should be doing something more important. gratz on being that jackass, buddy.
- Samas11, on 05/05/2008, -2/+26OR is it a llorkciR?
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 05/05/2008, -1/+24Every few months there's another five minute or so video of them doing something leisurely up there. I think that translates to less than a percent of their time used for this. Astronauts are people too, they like to relax sometimes.
- bsonline, on 05/05/2008, -1/+22No, he probably thinks the definition of apple is "the act of doing something cool"
- swimmin00, on 05/05/2008, -0/+21you mean "able" to make multiple loops?
- mescad, on 05/05/2008, -2/+23They were going to try that, but for some reason nobody onboard the ISS thought it would be a good idea to let all of the air out so that we could see the boomerang experiment.
- canton7, on 05/05/2008, -0/+21It's still a fairly massless object fighting air resistance, don't forget
- Abomonog, on 05/05/2008, -4/+22True, but that free fall produces a condition of zero gravity on the shuttle and ISS. The title is very accurate.
- Hayaemsay, on 05/05/2008, -1/+18It's still a Rickroll.
- scojerroc, on 05/05/2008, -1/+17fuzz, did you actually read the comments, or just type yours assuming what they would say? which people above have actually said he's in a vacuum?
- Llanowar, on 05/05/2008, -0/+15Just imagine an open debate in real life with a Bury Brigade.
Could be quite interesting. - Abomonog, on 05/05/2008, -0/+13And it would not curve in a vacuum.
- Shawn4168, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang
- davidlow, on 05/05/2008, -0/+12It's called a "Fast Catch boomerang". It's supposed to have three (or more) prongs.
- breezytrees, on 05/05/2008, -3/+15more like dumbass brigade.
- shortyjacobs, on 05/05/2008, -1/+131) you used OMG
2) it's "breathe"
3) he already mentioned air resistance
...Buried. - digger70chall, on 05/05/2008, -1/+11I'm smart enough to know you sound like a tool
- shortyjacobs, on 05/05/2008, -0/+10They dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon to prove that, in the absence of air resistance, the objects would fall at the same rate. Did they need to do this to prove Newton correct? No. But it was still cool. Why spend millions and millions of dollars to get up there if you aren't ever going to have some simple fun?
- InfiniteNothing, on 05/05/2008, -2/+11Someone needs to start a bury resistance
- CptBuck, on 05/05/2008, -5/+13Because theres no gravity shouldn't the boomerang have been apple to make multiple loops until air resistance slowed it down?
- BeforeSputnik, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8Watching it in space would be more interesting, it goes and goes, finally freeing itself from the confines of its 'bound by air-currents' life that all boomerangs secretly loathe. oh, to fly and never return, what joy it would be.
Serously. I know it wouldn't come back, but the previous comments seemed to lack that certainty and so I was still summing them all up. Still, a boomerang that comes back, not that intesting; a boomerang that doesnt come back = more interesting. - Hoogs, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8Maybe because they just wanted to have a little fun throwing around a boomerang?
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -1/+9Nowhere does your limited definition specify the number of "arms" a boomerang has.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -5/+13Why would it? It's not magic. Why would it curve in vacuum?
- repairman2003, on 05/05/2008, -1/+9Um... Chill... I just see comments of people saying to do it out in space since that is a vacuum, not in the ship
- seventoes, on 05/05/2008, -4/+11Well then leave and never come back, we arent forcing you to be here. Not everybody knows the exact physics behind everyday objects, but it is kind of interesting to see things like this. Do you get raged at the Human Interest pieces on your local news too?
- rfordh, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7oh, because there's such a huge difference between zero and null...
- TheDHC, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7initiates slow clap
- Jektal, on 05/05/2008, -1/+8You are so ***** stupid.
- canton7, on 05/05/2008, -0/+7The fact that they are 'falling' has no relevance here. Both boomerang, astronaut and space ship are all falling at exactly the same rate - about 8.8 ms-2
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+6because we all want to throw stuff in space.
- cwgannon, on 05/05/2008, -2/+8Gosh, I wonder where the material for your high school physics textbook came from. I imagine it must have all been taken from mere thought experiments, no? Who needs to make observations, test them, refine those tests, etc., when brilliant minds like you can just theorize reality.
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