XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   [1] The problem is getting guns of different calibers and other   
   characteristics affecting the path of the cannonballs to fire in the   
   correct order so that all of their cannonballs reach the target at the   
   same time. As time has marched on, of course, the "cannonballs" have   
   mutated into other forms, but the problem is the same.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)