What kind of people do this important research into the human capacity to traverse theoretical lunar swimming pools? The same kind of people who win Ig Nobel Prizes. The 2013 science gag prize in physics went to a team of Italian scientists who wanted to find an answer to that question. Their findings? It's possible — but difficult.
If you've ever gone canoeing, you may have noticed water striders, those small, long-legged bugs that easily stroll across the surface of the water without breaking the surface tension. In Central and South America, the slightly larger basilisk lizard can pull a similar trick, but it has to move pretty fast to do it. And we seem to remember a story about another guy way back when who was kind of famous for walking on water (not sure if that had anything to do with surface tension, though). But actually, a lot of people can perform that "miracle" — as long as they go to the moon first.
