Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What if you could walk on water? On a planet with lower gravity, it might be possible! Astra takes a quick look at swimming on lower-gravity planets, borrowing from Randall Munroe's What If Comic about swimming on the moon. We also get a physicist reactions to hilarious pictures of a science experiment simulating microgravity.

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