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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/14/2025 12:09 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Were explosive shells used before the USA Civil War ?   
      
   Lynn   
      
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