Clearly the MythBusters did this before I did (it's just airing tonight though). I just wanted to say that I posted some videos of the Apollo "jump salute" video analysis and also sped it up to "Earth-like" accelerations. I then made a video of my daughter doing the same thing on Earth and slowed it down. Yes, the MythBusters did it better, but I just wanted to say "me too". My analysis is here:
[Undoing Fake Moon Landing Videos](http://www.dotphys.net/files/moon-time.html)
P.S. I also slowed down a video of Kobe Bryant Jumping so he has an acceleration of that on the moon.
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