Gravity on a Moving Train: More or Less?

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I was just wondering while watching Spider-Man 2 ..
Would you need MORE or LESS gravity than the standard of 9.8 m/s2 in order to stand on the side of a train like he did? I want to say less like the moon, but I feel like on the moon you don't stop moving and would keep rotating. So would you need more or less?
 
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chrisrazzano said:
I was just wondering while watching Spider-Man 2 ..
Would you need MORE or LESS gravity than the standard of 9.8 m/s2 in order to stand on the side of a train like he did? I want to say less like the moon, but I feel like on the moon you don't stop moving and would keep rotating. So would you need more or less?

I don't recall the scene. Was there rotation involved?


The short answer: if you want to not fall off something, it would be a lot easier to do if you weighed less.