Astronaut Throwing A Boomerang In Space

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Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, on board the International Space Station, has proved that a boomerang returns to the person throwing it even in the zero-gravity conditions.

by GGfritz

It’s microgravity, not zero gravity. I wonder what would happen if it smacked something vitally important.

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by you're an idiot

those things are made of a soft foam…you couldn’t “smack” anything with it.

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by U Fool!

As you can see the cabin is full of ‘air’ as the astronaught has no life support systom on, this means the boomerang is flying no diferently to back on earth as gravity doesnt affect its flight to such an extent =]

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- by thatguy
  
  agreed, a boomerang functions off an air foil. gravity is just the variable that affects potential height during its flight.
  
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by Doh!

I’d be impressed if he did this while in the vacuum of space. There is a reason satellites and space stations aren’t designed with aerodynamics in mind.

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by justsomeperson

“those things are made of a soft foam…you couldn’t “smack” anything with it.”

Soft foam punched a hole in Challenger’s leading edge carbon fiber wing.

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by justsomeperson

All this proves is that there is an atmosphere inside the ISS. The forces acting on the boomerang are high and low pressure atmospheric differences. It’s a wing.

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by lvu

Thank you, thatguy.

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by freely

Your tax dollars at work.

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