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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now all im imagineing is a ball floating mid air and it's beautiful

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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