How did the astronauts just wipe the Moon dust off their skin/eyes with a cloth, when...?

The last person on the moon was Gene Cernan. After three moonwalks totaling a little under 22 hours he was dirty. Despite being sealed inside a space suit he still had to take it off and the mo…

Top stories for Long   How did the astronauts just wipe the Moon dust off their skin/eyes with a cloth, when in 2022, we now recognize that moon dust is sharper than fresh shattered glass, and would instead embed itself into our skin causing lacerations? Jerry Childs, Medicine, law, aerospace, military and music. Doctorate. • Updated February 9 The last person on the moon was Gene Cernan. After three moonwalks totaling a little under 22 hours he was dirty. Despite being sealed inside a space suit he still had to ta... Read more » 1.4K 122   If Prince William and Kate Middleton died tomorrow, Would King Charles III take in Prince George and raise the boy? Eileen Wood, Works for a Roofing Contractor (2010-present) • Answered February 12, 2023 If Prince William and Kate Middleton died tomorrow, Would King Charles III take in Prince George and raise the boy? Assuming they died at the same time, then whomever they s... Read more » 1.7K 33   Why do programmers like to use underscores (_) so much? Trausti Thor Johannsson, Computer programmer • Answered January 31 If you are talking about a variable like interest_rates Then that is simply the normal thing to do in that language, instead of using interestRates which is used in others. T... Read more » 87 22   Is there a difference in how police treat individuals with felonies compared to those without? Are there any situations where individuals with felonies may be targeted more or less frequently by police? Branden Watts, Machinist • Answered January 24 I was convicted of 5 drug felonies in 2010. For the next 4 or 5 years, any time a state trooper or police car was behind me, there was around a 70% chance of getting pulled... Read more » 102 18   What are things that only PhD mathematicians know? Keith Ramsay, Ph.D. in mathematics • Answered May 20, 2020 When I was a graduate student, the math department would have afternoon seminars that were open to the public, although almost all of the people in the audience were either... Read more » 249 26   In President Musk's new meritocracy, his illegal letter to all 2 million federal employees (including air traffic controllers) urged every single one of them to resign. Does this mean he thinks all government employees are worthless? Linda Johnson, former RN at Veterans Affairs Medical Center (2005-2022) • Answered February 5 Sadly, I think you are onto something. Musk thinks the employees are either unneeded or easily replaceable. 40,000+ federal employees have accepted the buyout offer so far, n... Read more » 438 123   I wish the Confederacy had won the Civil War. Does that make you hurt and angry inside? Shadowwalker, lives in East Tennessee • Answered January 20 I'm from East Tennessee. We were abolitionists. Do you know why? Because 0.2% of us actually had slaves. The rest of us were farmers who farmed our own land. And those rich... Read more » 2.4K 192   Have you ever had a car crash where the other person was at fault but they acted like the victim? Kenneth Mixson, former Mechanic at Aviation (2001-2021) • Updated October 22, 2023 Yes. I pulled up and stopped behind a car at a traffic light. She was stopped for the red light. She then backed into me. We called the police. I was given a ticket for the... Read more » 4.5K 76   What prevented the Rams from staying in St. Louis? Dave Carlisle, lives in St. Louis, MO (1982-present) • Answered October 24 The Rams went through a historically putrid stretch of football, including a 5-year run of 15–65, which was then and I believe still is the worst 5-season record in the his... Read more » 65 5   Is it me or does Kylo Ren lack motivation and his only motivation is to be seen as the baddest? I mean it's childish and ridiculous. Why didn't they give him a more anti-villainous motivation? Franklin Veaux, I am a human. I have behaviors. Some of them are unusual. • Answered February 1 Okay, so. Have you ever seen Galaxy Quest? There's a scene where the characters have to make their way through a corridor with a bunch of giant hammers pounding the floor. O... Read more » 946 141   What is it like to live in Ireland? Dave Cahill, lives in Dublin, Ireland • Answered May 30, 2018 Is it easy to live in Ireland? Of the 200-odd countries in the world, yes, Ireland is definitely very far up the list in terms of quality of life. It's a developed Western Eu... Read more » 467 56   If you were able to travel at 99.999% the speed of light, how far from Earth would you travel? Silk Road - The Second Act, studied Physics • Answered January 16 ¶At 99.999% of light speed, space and time play tricks that our normal minds struggle with. ¶Light moves at 299,792,458 meters per second--Einstein showed us that's the univ... Read more » 398 34 Read more in your feed

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