In science class we are investigating gravity and how the force of gravity changes on different objects in the universe. We were asked to write about how our favorite sport would be played differently on the moon. Here are my ideas about how tennis would be played on the moon.
Being in space is an unexplainable experience and everyone would want to go there, if there was an opportunity to go. It would be a greater experience if you were able to play your favorite sport on the moon with your mate(s). But as always, there are some exceptions that come into play.
You would not possibly play by the same rules and other characteristics that a certain kind of sport have. I am gonna talk about a historic game called tennis, which was invented in the 12th century.
To start off, from our prior knowledge, tennis uses a racket to hit the ball to the other side of the court. You hit the ball, and depending on how much power you put in, it will either go fast, or slow. The problem is that, for example you hit the ball 15 meters from where you are. The half of tennis court is about 24 meters, if you round it out to the nearest whole number. It only has 9 more meters to reach the other baseline. If you multiply 15 by 6 that will give you the number of 90 meters. If you hit the ball on the moon you will hit it 90 meters which is way off the court, and in fact, 90 is 4 times longer than the length of the court. That's why I think that they should change the dimensions of the court to a longer length and wider width, so the average balls wouldn't go so far.
One thing that is a crucial thing to add, so this sport is playable are sunglasses that can zoom in at any range. This is important because if someone is like hundred meters away from you, you can't really see a clear vision of what they are exactly gonna do. It would be very relevant and it would be much easier to see and they don't have to squint while they are playing. We should call it the mircoglass 1.0. This aspect of the sport doesn't really relate, but it's just the vision part of it. If we gotta put some gravity into this 'mircoglass 1.0' maybe we should make it, that it will always stay on your eyes and won't float or fall off your face.
A rule that should change in tennis is the amount of bounces the ball can bounce before it goes pass the certain amount. The original rules is one bounce, and I think it should be change to 3 bounces, because you won't have time to go half of the court in less than 2 seconds, since the half of the court is 50 meters. However, on Earth if you would jump as far as you could, on average your distance would be 1.93 meters, well at least my distance. On the moon if you did the same thing you would jump as far 11.58 meters! That is 1/5 of the half court, which means they would be able to hit the ball on time without surpassing the rules. It's funny how in space tennis would be a jumping game rather than a running game, but it still has the same purpose.
To wrap this up, the thing that should change is one of the most important object to play this sport. If you didn't have this object, you can't play the sport, and this object is the ball, the small, yellow bouncy ball. Instead of having the inside be only rubber, the ball should be something different. Since if you throw or hit an object, it will just go to its direction depending how and where it was hit. The ball should have a piece of technology that is built in the ball, which has a remote control, so the player can control where the ball is going to go. In the other hand, the racket will have a sensor so you could control the ball, and no matter what the gravity it is you could move it easily. Basically the ball would be soft on the outside, and metallic on the inside.
Tennis, tennis is the sport that would be very fun if it is played in space. Yes, some of the equipments and rules are changed. However that doesn't change how much fun this sport is actually is. To generalize it, it is possible to play all your favorite sport in space but some rules, equipments needs to be modified to make it work in space.
