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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/14/2025 3:57 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:   
   > On 10/14/2025 4:26 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >> 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 ?   
   >   
   > Do you know the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner?"   
   >   
   > (Earlier possibilities include 13th century China and 14th century Venice.)   
      
   Ah !  Very true.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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