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Originally Posted by Goodie
I've always enjoyed the sports science pieces and it's clearly relevant to the argument.
I've seen two Sports Science pieces.
On the first one, they set out to prove that a softball pitcher throws the ball harder than a baseball pitcher. They set up a device to measure the force of the ball hitting it, and had pitchers throw at it. The baseball traveled faster, but the softball hit it so hard, it broke the device! So obviously, the softball pitcher is throwing "harder". At no point did they mention that a softball weighs more than a baseball, thus has more momentum.
The second one, they posited that Drew Brees can throw a football more accurately than an Olympic archer can shoot an arrow! Sure enough, Brees hit a bullseye ten out of ten throws, while the archer only got 7 or 8 bullseyes, so obviously Drew Brees is more accurate. They never mentioned that the nose of the ball can miss the bullseye by several inches and still score a hit, but that doesn't work with an arrow; and most egregious of all, while they told us how far away Brees stood from the target (10 or 20 yards, I forget), they never told us how far away the archer was! Olympic archers shoot from 70 meters! Brees can't even throw a football that far!
Cliffs: Sports Science is FOS.