Cosmic Queries – Geek Time! with Charles Liu
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The Other Side of the Archery
When sports are balanced like that, it's what makes them the great thing they are. You see with some of the sports. How far would a javelin go? We're thinking that would go six times farther on the moon. Is that right? Yeah. So take the world record times of by six and... For the javelin. That's about a hundred. I mean, and put an unsuspecting astronaut on the other end. Wait, wait, wait. There's a technicality here because in our lifetime, they added an atmospheric drag element on the tail of the Javelin so they can keep it in the stadium. They actually wait because the javelins themselves
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