LuckyDonkey

One of the hardest things to get your head around when you are a kid (or even now as an adult I will admit) is that the time it takes objects to fall to the ground is the same even if they have different masses. It's just doesn't make sense that a lighter object falls at the same speed as a heavier one. After all the heavier one pulls on your hand more and your instinct tells you it is going to fall more quickly.

Well here is some excellent footage from the Apollo space mission where a hammer and a feather fall at the same rate toward the moon. The lack of atmosphere removes the effect of drag on the feather. It really does look fake... but it isn't.

Of course wikipedia has some excellent information on our long lost scientific friend including information on how he showed this to be true on earth.

It's really hard to keep the dream alive as you get older. Other priorities like family and friends increasingly take you time and attention. The feeling that nothing is new creeps in. Nothing feels exciting any more. All the adventure of life just disappears. Steve Wozniak seems to have defied these negative forces for the last 50 years. Here is a really interesting and long interview of Woz by Guy Kawasaki

I watched this documentary about a year ago now. I bought it from the NSS in the UK. Now someone has pushed it on to google video.

At first I was not that impressed. It seemed to have low production values and the narrative was a little weak. However it does grow on you as you get further in to the documentary.

Check out the homepage for 'The God Movie'. Check out the directors blog here. The director, Brian Flemming, is an interesting character and his blog has a lot of good stuff in it.

If you like it, why not buy the video. If you are in Europe get it from the NSS Shop and support secularism in the Europe. If your outside the UK you can order it from 'The God Who Wasn't There' Homepage