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If you shot a golf ball from on top of the Eiffel Tower?
If you shot a golf ball from on top of the Eiffel Tower?
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bump
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It's appeared at last!
I bumped this thread about 10 minutes ago when I posted that quote from it on the other thread. Wondered where it had gone. |
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This is the thread that inspired my cueball discussions. I doff my thinking cap to you, Munch Man.
And I hope you are well, sir. Haven't seen you around lately. |
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Whatever the Big O says is correct.
He is the master of AW shrewdiosity, a legend in his own lunchtime and I will not have his flawed logic floored. Meanwhile, back in the batcave, rd worships a man who has not seen a bar of soap in 30 years. |
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True dat.
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Why, if you throw a tennis ball into the air sitting in the back seat of a car going 60mph, doesn't it go into the back window?
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Because the ball is travelling at 60mph when you chuck it in the air
Relative to someone stood on the pavement the ball will land 50 yards further down the road than its take off point |
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If you are moving at 60mph and throw a ball up in the air you are actually also throwing it forwards at 60mph too. I think. That question used to intrigue me when I was a kid.
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someone already mentioned terminal velocity, so the thread should rest in peace.
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if you have one arm out the car window and one inside the car and a ball in each which you throw up at the same time, which are you more likely to catch if you are travelling at 30mph
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depends on speed bumps
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neither if you are driving
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My favourite row of this type is the, 'how do they drive the minis onto the bus in The Italian Job'?
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long time no see
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The cannonball has forward momentum and therefore will land after the ball dropped straight down.
Think of it this way, assuming no air resistance, the escape velocity of the Earth is 25,000MPH or there about's. Fire a cannonball at this speed horizontally and it will circle the Earth and come back to the same spot without touching the ground. It will also take 90 minutes to travel that distance. Assume the cannonball has slightly less momentum, it will hit the Earth gradually but the forward momentum will ensure that it still hits the ground in more time than it takes to drop the thing straight down. Any forward momentum therefore will always result in a longer time taken. Problem solved. |
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I'd probably use a 7 iron off the Eiffel Tower but some people might say I was going in Seine.
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Good to see munch man back
 A good chit-chitter, not like the bunch we've got now   |
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Why don't you shut up you bloody little moaner.
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SEETHING
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Tell me a pretendy story Culvin, go head...
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It was my pleasure to eavesdrop on almost this exact argument in the pub tonight. I vowed there and then to resurrect this classic thread upon my return. :)
Bravo, Munch! |
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Hey Poker, belated Happy new Year, I don't get on here very often these days. ALL the best.
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Not long in. bed is calling, good night guys.
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Happy new year, Foxy. :)
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Lot of bad physics in that thread. When I saw the title I didn't realise it was an old one and thought it was brassneck!
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