Would it be easier to use a pogo stick on the moon?

Answer 1

nah a space hopper would be far easier

Answer 2

Define "easier." Since gravity is 1/6 the earth's gravity, you would either go much higher or even into low lunar orbit. You would spend more time above the surface in any event. While up there you might find maintaining an upright position a little more complicated, so you might land off the vertical and rebound into a rock, a crater wall or again into low lunar orbit. If not, you would be launched at an angle back off the lunar surface, and who knows where or how you would land again, only to rebound into another long arc. You might become the lunar equivalent of Charlie on the (Boston) MTA.

Answer 3

properly, ..., once you're at sea point (or on an extremely extreme hill) and the moon is purely increasing (or putting) you could likely hop over it with a pogo stick. for sure that is purely an optical phantasm even though it is achievable to offer that optical phantasm. although to bodily accomplish this would take a pogo follow a Saturn V Rocket related to the different end. ;)

Answer 4

A pogo stick would not work on the moon. Your acceleration towards the moon would not be sufficient to overcome the spring tension.

Answer 5

yes i think it would be easier on the moon and especially if you fell off , but you wouldnt want to float away but would save you from a sore bottom. actuallyu sounds really fun , but cant do pogo stick , well cant say cant as havent tried yet , but will tommorow .
thanks for the funny thought .

Answer 6

Well, with the gravity force different on the moon, you would spend an infinetly longer time floating about before you came down for the next bounce. They say that big willy ray went to the moon. he said there was no gravity up there, that means we can get high and never come down.

Answer 7

no. it would be just as hard on the moon.

the downward force applied on the pogo stick is due to your weight which is dependant on the acceleration due to gravity. since the acceleration due to gravity on the moon is less, you would apply less force onto the stick. hence the spring on the stick would contract less but you would still achieve the same height.

i.e. you would have the same experience on the moon (and on any other rock planet) as you would on earth.

Answer 8

Only if you were anchored to something on the ground because there is no gravity on the moon and one bounce would send you off into space... Be one hell of a bounce though!
Also Basketball on the moon would be impossible because the ball wouldn't travel in an arc to the basket... It would continue going up and into space...

Answer 9

Yes because there is lesser gravitational pull in the moon. You might also want to consider playing with the trampoline.

It would also be valid to think that there would be a lot of people who could play basketball like Michael Jordan - in the moon.

Answer 10

surly not , even harder since you're body wight is 6 times lower then on earth and u're mass is the same , so the elastic part of the pogostick wont change, it will be just as if you steped with no pogo stick.

Answer 11

I really don't think it would work. You wouldn't have enough gravity to push the spring down and if you did then its likely to propel you off the moon and all that in a space suit!!! Should be fun trying though.