• @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    Imagine that you’re standing on a train and have a baseball. If you throw the ball off the train, the ball will still have momentum in the direction of the train’s movement.

    If you want to throw the ball to a friend the train just passed, you have to be able to throw the ball faster than the train is moving or it will never reach them.

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        32 months ago

        Mythbusters did this! (Well, the ball fell to the ground, but for a split second it looked like it was hovering after being shot out of a cannon.)

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          12 months ago

          Oh nice. Im re-watching then on youtube at the moment so will have to keep an eye out for that one.