This dope tries to flex his head muscle by proclaiming that a football that hit the goal post for a game-winning kick was aided by the earth’s rotation. It was all just an exercise in “look at me, me smart, you no think of things like me.”
Ummm, Neil. The wind will have a greater impact on a ball airborne for 2 seconds traveling a distance of 150 feet. Tyson maintains the ball moved 1/3rd of an inch due to the earth’s rotation.
In his analysis, he did not say he factored in the wind, which he would have had to in order to maintain the earth’s rotation put the ball in the uprights.
If he threw the tennis ball up while riding close behind a tractor trailer the backdraft probably would have moved the ball forward w/r/t the pickup.
I had an idiot cousin who tried to convince me that the Apollo rocket takeoffs were disrupting the earth’s rotation and revolution.
Gee Wally, for someone that talks so much shit, he really should consider the wind factor!
(If ya know whut I mean)
Jethro: I didn’t know you were related to Neil deGrasse Tyson!
It’s according to how far he punted. Like 4000 mi. then you might have to figure in the earths rotation.
@RadioMattM
My only relation to him that I recall is his resemblance to a turd I dumped the other day.
He’s an affirmative action hire with the usual big mouth where he proves he wouldn’t be where he is except for his race.
Your first clue that the guy is an idiot should have been the word “genius” on his business card.
Wait a minute. Are you saying that when Wylie Coyote parachutes out the side of an airplane he’s not supposed to get hit by the horizontal stabilizer?
I didn’t watch the Tyson video: I ain’t got no time fo’ dat.
Did he explain that the atmosphere and winds are also influenced by Coriolis forces? Did he factor in latitude? Coriolis force is proportional to cos(lat) IIRC. Did he factor in the gravitational attraction force exerted on the ball from his supermassive ego?
I didn’t think so.
Coriolis effect does make storms rotate a certain direction. But considering that it is a weak force, dependent upon the width of the phenomenon, it ain’t gonna affect a field goal kick. Heck, despite the old wives’ tale (and a Simpsons episode!) it doesn’t even affect the swirl in your toilet.
Did Tyson factor in the force of the moon’s gravity counter balancing the earth’s rotational effect? I know that my analysis is correct because I feel it is correct – and that is now science.
Tyson forgot to factor in the flapping of butterfly wings. We all know what that causes. A “real” scientist should know that!
**Breaking!!** “Physicist” Kneel DeGrease Tyson finally realizes there’s such a thing as the Coriolis force and figures his audience hasn’t. Announces he’s going back to school to start over.
Saw the tail end of an NFL game last night where a failed Field Goal try was rewarded another try simply because the opposing HOME team had too many men (12) on the field. The 2nd try was the winner, right down the middle!
This is such a fxcking stupid argument. I can’t believe he even went down this path. The Earths rotation is a constant. Just like gravity. Athletes train around it, and with it. It’s a non factor. That ball would have suffered a greater impact if all the defensive linemen farted at the same time.
Does he also believe the air pressure in a tire is different with the car’s weight on it vs the tire off the car?
Physics ‘R Us!
So I can resume my hobby of jumping in elevators?
A car is following a 20′ cargo truck. The truck’s rear lift door is open and there is a ramp extending from the truck bed down to the road. If the truck is traveling 60 mph and the car is traveling 65 mph, what happens when the car drives onto the ramp?
@Mr. Happy — Is the car front wheel drive or rear wheel drive?
Uncle Al, for our purposes it’s RWD and the ramp is 15′
The car will proceed up the ramp at 5 MPH relative to the truck/ramp combo. When the rear wheels get to the ramp, results are unpredictable and depend mostly on the testicle size of the car driver. If he knows what he’s doing, there will be a bit of smoke from the rear tires before he slams on the brakes before crawling up the ramp and into the back of the truck.
Do I get the cookie?
Let’s see if there are any other contestants. I only have the one cookie. 🙂
Give the man a cookie!
New problem. At 100,000 feet over the Washington Monument, a high altitude balloonist lets go of a round, one foot diameter watermelon that weighs 15 pounds. Assuming the atmosphere has no wind at any level, a constant gravitational acceleration of 32.2 ft/sec.², where does the melon land and why?
@General M. — The watermelon lands at 1322 14th St NW, in the parking lot of the nearest Popeye’s chicken joint.
Seriously, it lands smack dab on the aluminum pyramid tip of the monument. Why? Any motion in the system applies to the whole system. The size and weight of the melon, the altitude of the balloon, and the gravitational constant are irrelevant.
So did the goalposts?
@Mr. Happy — I did leave one thing out. When the car’s front tires hit the ramp, there will be some smoking rubber there as their rotational speed has to drop from 65 to 5 in a very short time. Ideally, the car’s driver would put the transmission in neutral right at that moment. Then as the car’s inertia and the tire’s rotational inertia drive the car up the ramp, the driver would need to hit the brakes just as the back tires hit the ramp. He could either stop on the ramp or drive up into the truck, but that would be after all the sphincter-tightening action was over.
“When the rear wheels get to the ramp, results are unpredictable and depend mostly on the testicle size of the car driver.”
No, not really, assuming my thinking is correct. When the rear wheels climb onto the ramp, the car is now traveling 65 mph on a road that’s only ~35′ long. The result does not work out in the driver’s favor, testicle size notwithstanding. Here’s a quote from 2021, Car and Driver: The current pinnacle of automotive braking is the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, which comes to an eye-popping halt from 70 mph in 127 feet.
I think you’re mistaken. The car is doing 65 but the truck is doing 60. Thus the car is moving at 5 MPH relative to the truck and ramp. The car moving from the roadway onto the ramp does nothing to change that.
Uncle Al – the correct answer is that – hopefully! – it lands on the Capitol Building, right on the Rotunda and takes out some Democrat inside.
Actually, the perfectly spherical melon (forgot to mention that) will reach some terminal velocity that decreases with altitude and conservation of angular momentum (the source of the Coriolis effect) will cause it deflect to the East of the monument as it descends (with excess angular momentum going from high to low altitude), in direct line with the Capitol Building. Luck is required for the distance needed to get there! But hopefully, it bonks Nancy Pelosi or someone similar!
Apparently Mr Happy hasn’t watched the 1969 film The Italian Job.
Hopefully the melon lands on Joe’s melon head.
A poor replacement for Carl Sagan.
Sagan’s wife selected the fucker; what was she thinking?
Tyson is a jive turkey, bullshit artist.
What if the car is “electric”?