What if an elephant fell from the Empire State Building?
The physical size of objects, and the resulting implications, are often hard to model outside of fitting squares and triangles into holes on a wooden board. Morbidity aside, the size of an object (including elephants) is easy to showcase by dropping it from high places.
It’s a typical December scenario: The family trip to the tree lot. The Fraser Fir tied to the roof of the car. Dad under the branches screwing the stand to the trunk. And the inevitable wobbling of the 7-foot holiday embellishment as it threatens to topple over and onto the floor, scattering needles everywhere.
Future spacecraft - and how they will handle landing on new planets
Scientists have already landed spacecraft on the easier, calmer planets – now they have to figure out how to get their machines onto planets with high pressured atmospheres, steep, mountainous surfaces, and slippery ice surfaces