Darts on the Moon

[mrmorris]

<font color="yellow">"Now I probably made an error here but I think that translates into a regulation lunar darts distance of approximately 46 feet 7.5 inches. Hmmm, it's a good thing you can't smoke on the moon because seeing the bulls-eye at that distance is going to be hard enough already without the usual bar atmosphere. "</font><br /><br />Well if your goal is to reproduce Earth dart trajectory conditions, etc. -- then what you'd want to do is both extend the distance to the board <b>and</b> scale up the size of it such that it approximates the size of a standard board at 7'9". Note you'll probably also want to modify the darts rules to include a flunky to fetch the darts -- shades of the ball fetchers you see in professional tennis matches.<br /><br />Of course this would do nothing for the conditions of the <b>thrower</b> having to work in 1/6th G in a pressure suit. We need one of those high-tech 'spray-on' suits that shuttle_guy wanted to see Pamela Anderson modeling in a thread a few months back. That'd take care of pretty much everything except the problem of throwing in low-G -- not much to be done about that.

 

[mrmorris]

<font color="yellow">"a suit like that couldn't help but be slimming and supportive."</font><br /><br />As has already been mentioned -- in 1/6th G, women won't (as a rule) be requiring 'support' from their spacesuit. Maybe when out for a jog -- but not when they're just standing around throwing darts in the open air (open vacuum?) pub.

 

[strandedonearth]

I started thinking you can get some serios range with lawn, er, regolith darts, but alas, in a vacuum the point would be unlikely to hit first. Even spin-stabilization would only keep the point straight in the the original direction of flight while the sdart started falling. Perhaps if it was thrown like a discus, with the point already facing down at release, then the spin would keep the point down. Then you'd just have to get the angles right.

 

[igorsboss]

<font color="yellow">in 1/6th G, women won't (as a rule) be requiring 'support' from their spacesuit. Maybe when out for a jog</font><br /><br />I had trouble getting past this point. I'm still contemplating the ramifications of white lunar T-shirts..

 

[mrmorris]

<font color="yellow">"I'm still contemplating the ramifications of white lunar T-shirts.. "</font><br /><br />Watch '10' with Bo Derek and Dudley Moore if you haven't ever seen it. If you have -- there's no need to see it again, the scene is already burned into your brain. Lunar jogging seen at normal speed would be pretty much like the infamous slow-motion beach jog scene. Everything will happen slower in low-G, the ups, the downs, the bounces... all slowed down to 1/4 time. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />