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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 37 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Velocity is speed in a given direction. She only calculated speed.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Also, air resistance was acting on the baby immediately after it left the hands accelerating it. So was she reporting peak speed or the speed several feet away as shown in the frame of the comic. Additionally, she could have easily avoided this ambiguity if she stated the hypothetical speed of the baby being as if it was thrown in a vacuum, but she didn't do that either. Its just pure laziness really.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Assuming the baby is a spherical point mass in a vacuum is so 101.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

spherical point

That’s a new kind of math, definitely not 101.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sphere with radius zero. Problem solved 🤣

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But then quantum mechanics are significant, and you have black hole.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Black holes are GR and it wouldn't make the calculations much different. Take the moon for example, the orbit would be exactly the same no matter if earth is a rocky planet, a black hole or a point mass.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, but how are you gonna throw a black hole baby?

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