Speaking of the vacuum, I recall the testing of Galileo's theory (Apollo 17, IIRC) that a feather would fall at the same rate as a rock in a vacuum...the comic strip B.C., one character wondered if that was true, & another said, "Yeah, but it'll set ya back 4 billion clams to prove it!"

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