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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
Started By TWC, Sep 26 2012 08:56 PM
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 08:57 PM
Also, for the Star Wars dorks here (you know who I'm looking at), this one was great, too: http://what-if.xkcd.com/3/
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 05:37 AM
Someone is WRONG on the Internet!
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 05:38 AM
Holy shit that's awesome.Also, for the Star Wars dorks here (you know who I'm looking at), this one was great, too: http://what-if.xkcd.com/3/
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 06:29 AM
I could very well be wrong, but I think we did the 90% of light thing before (or maybe it was on an engineering blog I peruse). Never the less, good stuff. Never mind I believe it was throwing a baseball at orbital escape velocity on the moon and it let me to the same article.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 06:30 AM
I love the last comment.
A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(
suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 11:40 AM
It was in the Bullets, but, unlike you, I didn't want to call TWC an inattentive piece of shit.I could very well be wrong, but I think we did the 90% of light thing before (or maybe it was on an engineering blog I peruse). Never the less, good stuff. Never mind I believe it was throwing a baseball at orbital escape velocity on the moon and it let me to the same article.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 12:03 PM
Larf.It was in the Bullets, but, unlike you, I didn't want to call TWC an inattentive piece of shit.
I could very well be wrong, but I think we did the 90% of light thing before (or maybe it was on an engineering blog I peruse). Never the less, good stuff. Never mind I believe it was throwing a baseball at orbital escape velocity on the moon and it let me to the same article.
So it was (7/12/12)... when I was on vacation. In Chicago, of all places. So I missed it (and only found out about What If? a month or so ago). So I love you all. And you can all fuck off. You needed the reminder anyway.
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Posted 27 September 2012 - 01:19 PM
Eh, he needs the reminder every now and then.It was in the Bullets, but, unlike you, I didn't want to call TWC an inattentive piece of shit.
I could very well be wrong, but I think we did the 90% of light thing before (or maybe it was on an engineering blog I peruse). Never the less, good stuff. Never mind I believe it was throwing a baseball at orbital escape velocity on the moon and it let me to the same article.
"It's not the dress that makes you look fat, it's the fat that makes you look fat." -Al Bundy
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