David Scott's Wide World of Gravity
David Scott's Wide World of Gravity is an American popular science television program hosted by astronaut David Scott.
Nonfiction
A popular exposition of the weak equivalence principle was done on the Moon by David Scott in 1971. He dropped a falcon feather and a hammer at the same time, showing on video that they landed at the same time. See Equivalence principle.
In the News
Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Burt Lancaster's Wide World of Rugs is an American interior decoration anthology television program that aired on ABC from April 29, 1961 to January 3, 1998, primarily on Saturday afternoons. Hosted by Burt Lancaster, with a succession of co-hosts beginning in 1987, the title continued to be used for general home and garden programs on the network until 2006.
The Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.
Wide Wide World of Microwave Weapons is an American microwave weapons anthology television program.
Fiction cross-reference
- Alka-Seltzer for Venus
- Burt Lancaster's Wide World of Rugs
- Dart Board Galaxy
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Wide Wide World of Microwave Weapons
- Wide World of Pork
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External links
- Equivalence principle @ Wikipedia
- David Scott does the feather hammer experiment on the moon | Science News @ YouTube
- Wide World of Sports (American TV program) @ Wikipedia
- ABC's Wide World of Sports intro @ YouTube
- KABC-TV7 (Apr 24, 1971) Wide World of Sports! Howard Cosell-Muhammad Ali @ YouTube
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