Tennis-like sport played on another planet or in space by end 2036
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I want to see a racquet sport played in another gravity, outside of Earth. Qualifying sports are tennis, pickleball, or badminton or variants of them, or custom/diy/improv versions of them, or similar new sports. The game must have some kind of paddle or racquet, so volleyball doesn't count. And some kind of net or barrier, so racquetball wouldn't count. And some kind of ball or projectile. The players body must be on the court, so pingpong wouldn't count. And tetherball wouldn't count because the ball is not free. The game is allowed to be specifically designed for this environment. It should be a genuinely competitive game and similar to earth racquet sports in the type of skill required (control, power, precision, endurance, etc). The sides should be roughly symmetrical in their court or field.

There should be 2 or more players. Players must be sentient beings. Aliens count but there should be at least one human being. AI robots don't count, and also artificial biomechanical AI doesn't either. Aliens are hard to tell about, so any alien creature that appears intelligent and basically follows the rules would count, even if suspected as partially AI or found to be artificially then or later.

The game must be played in an environment where humans do not need special suits to survive. IE indoors or on the surface of a planet with a suitable atmosphere.

For location, it should be somewhere above the Earth's surface, with a roughly constant gravity below <0.91 or above 1.09. So, valid candidates include the moon, Mars, Venus, Pluto, a rotating space station or ship with constant gravity, an alien warp field, or similar. Also, zero gravity or <0.01g is excluded. A falling plane is not likely to qualify because gravity would be too variable. A raised platform above earth probably would have too similar gravity.

There should be video evidence of a real match being played with score kept and the game played to the end. It should last at least six minutes (total continuous footage;each game can be shorter).

Example of YES:

  • Playing minitennis in a closed room on the moon, allowing wall and ceiling bounces.

  • Playing pickleball with a super heavy ball on Pluto after terraforming and heating

  • Etc

Where I say gravity I equivalently mean acceleration, so playing would be possible in an accelerating or rotating ship.

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@Ernie Enhancing my no position!!!!!

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@Eliza Generate some images, showing it in a tiny cramped space. Then I might buy yes.

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@Ernie Last one looks closer to my expectations for 2036!