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   From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Paul S Person  wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:22:10 -0500, Lynn McGuire   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >xkcd: “Physics Insight”   
   > >    https://xkcd.com/3154/   
   > >   
   > >“When Galileo dropped two weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, they   
   > >put him in the history books.  But when I do it, I get 'detained by   
   > >security' for ‘injuring several tourists.’”   
   > >   
   > >I have been to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  It is quite a ways   
   > >up.  Articles can achieve significant velocity from there.   
   >   
   > IIRC, at some point Galileo was in charge of the Pisan artillery.   
   >   
   > I wonder if he was trying to find out why their "time on target"   
   > computations [1] never worked with Aristotle's view of how things   
   > fell.   
      
   I have some doubts on whether that concept would occur to him. IIRC, the   
   whole idea of "Time on Target" was for explosive shells.   
      
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