• Question: if u dropped a brick on ur head in space would it hurt

    Asked by paulhargy to Adam, Geoff, Rob, Sheila, Suzie on 21 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Suzie Sheehy

      Suzie Sheehy answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      If you were ‘weightless’ and ‘floating’ in space and let go of a brick from your hand it wouldn’t go anywhere, it would just stay where it was. If you threw it at your head then yeah, it would probably heard. But they probably don’t have bricks on the space shuttle, they are pretty useless in space. Unless you want to do the brick vs head experiment, of course…

    • Photo: Adam Tuff

      Adam Tuff answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      As you are in “freefall” in space, you feel an effect called zero gravity – this means you can’t drop a brick – when you let go it would just float there!

    • Photo: Sheila Kanani

      Sheila Kanani answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Nice question! I’m not sure you can drop a brick on your head in space because of the microgravity, so if you just sort of softly collided with the brick I don’t think it would hurt no 🙂

    • Photo: Robert Simpson

      Robert Simpson answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Without gravity, dropping a brick would be impossible. In space though, there is also no air. Without air resistance, throwing a brick would be incredibly dangerous! It would continue to hurtle through space until it hit something – never dropping downward or slowing down due to air resistance.

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