Increasing mass doesn't inhibit sliding (was Those reckless moon astronauts)

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> a weighted net over bundles of items moving down a conveyer

...Would slide off just as easily as anything else on the conveyor belt.

> a simple latch of some sort on the conveyor could serve to tether items at quite high rates of speed without them flying away.

Yes. Why isn't that used on Earth?