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Re:The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum cha... by smackfu on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @11:25AM (#8557352)
>They already had some sort of apparatus set up to do the simultaneous drops.

Why do you say that? They could have easily made the apparatus for this experiment.

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Re:The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum cha... by Too on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @02:24PM (#8558505)
The button he pressed when dropping had a label that said something like "launch jet sequence" (don't remember exactly). They probably have a modular set of actuator and rigs they can easily mess around with . :)
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