Galileo, Gravity, and the Moon

Although he might not have been the absolute first to propose it, Galileo is widely credited with proposing the concept in 1638 that all bodies fall with equal acceleration through a vacuum, and mythologically with actually testing it at the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  This concept was a necessary precursor to Newton's law of universal gravitation (ask me sometime why the inverse square rule is SO COOL) and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Over 300 years later, David Scott, commander of Apollo 15, decided to test Galileo's theory.  On the Moon. Should we bring back dueling to create a more civil society? Yes No

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