What Would Happen If a Pool Was Put on the Moon

As part of their ongoingWhat If?" series,Randall Munroe ofxkcdand Henry Reich ofMinutePhysics explain what would happen if a pool was put on the moon. The answer is that much would be the same except the waves would be wider, splashes would be larger, dives would be higher and there's a small possibility of walking on water.

On the Moon, you couldconceivably do a high dive in reverse. And it gets even better. A 2012 paper concluded that while humans can't run on the surface of water on Earth, they mightjust barely be able to do so on the Moon. ...Because of thereduced gravity on the Moon, the water would belaunched upward more easily, just like the swimmers.The result would be larger wavesand more flying droplets. In technical terms, a pool on the Moon would be more splashy".