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Nice simple question.
KingNothing said:If you throw it perpendicular to the Earth's surface, if you throw it at escape velocity, it will keep going forever.
If you throw something horizontally with enough force, it will eventually go into orbit and continue "falling" forever.
Personally, my best dwarf toss was around 15 feet.
KingNothing said:If you throw it perpendicular to the Earth's surface, if you throw it at escape velocity, it will keep going forever.
If you throw something horizontally with enough force, it will eventually go into orbit and continue "falling" forever.
Personally, my best dwarf toss was around 15 feet.
AtomicJoe said:Clearly you cannot throw something into orbit, that is proven by the fact it has never been done, so it is fairly reasonable to say that is impossible.
DaveC426913 said:Too simple.
Who? Me? Anyone?
Realistically? In principle? According to physics?
What? A cotton ball? A hand grenade? A fishing trawler?
Pengwuino said:Depends on whether or not something is in the way.
AtomicJoe said:Well the question is as stated.
You can throw what you like, it is your choice, be it a hand grenade or a battleship.
DaveC426913 said:So, you agree your question needs clarification.
(BTW, something having never been done is definitely not proof that it can't be done.)
DaveC426913 said:This is one of those 'discuss amongst yourselves for my amusement' questions.
I don't want to play.
Your question is poorly formed.
Pengwuino said:Depends on whether or not something is in the way.
AtomicJoe said:Nice simple question.
Curl said:I threw a rock about 60-70 meters.
AtomicJoe said:I don't think that is going to be the winning answer.
DaveC426913 said:It does answer your question.
You asked what the farthest Curl can throw something. That sounds like a plausible answer.
And any person answered. Question answered.AtomicJoe said:I didn't refer to Curl specifically, the 'you' refers 'any person'.
DaveC426913 said:And any person answered. Question answered.
AtomicJoe said:Question was misunderstood apparently.
DaveC426913 said:Nope. Question was poorly formed. i.e. ambiguous.
Request for disambiguation netted an answer which is essentially 'you are free to come up with your own interpretation of the question'.
rcgldr said:USA type football record, 306 feet <=> 93.2 meters.
USA type baseball record 445 feet <=> 135.6 meters
Aerobie flying ring world record 1,333 feet <=> 406.3 meters
KingNothing said:If you throw something horizontally with enough force, it will eventually go into orbit and continue "falling" forever.
Oldfart said:Last I heard, you can't throw (or fire from a gun) something into orbit. It either goes on forever, or falls back to Earth. You need a second burn to inject it into orbit after the intiial toss.
Thank you. That could be considered a disambiguation.AtomicJoe said:Well if you look at it like that the answer with the longest distance wins.
There is no requirement to have a single answer.Anyway now the question is to your satisfaction perhaps you colud have a shot at answering it?DaveC426913 said:Thank you. That could be considered a disambiguation.Only took 22 posts...
AtomicJoe said:Anyway now the question is to your satisfaction perhaps you colud have a shot at answering it?
DaveC426913 said:I might be able to throw a baseball about 25 yards.
Curl said:Rail gun firing depleted uranium.
11km or so I think is how far they launch the projectile, not sure though. Google it.
Wait. That's a completely different question.AtomicJoe said:OK so what do you think is the furthest anyone could manage, using any 'throwing' (or fireing) method on earth?