it's not falling
in space the intital force applied to it will determine it's speed and when it arrives at the moon's surface it will be travelling at that speed + gravitational effects
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 9 Jun 2009, 13:11,
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Correct answer!
Alien horse has been propelled towards hapless short-armed individual by nefarious alien overlords.
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Barbarossa is not my real name,
Tue 9 Jun 2009, 13:14,
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