• gens
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    2 days ago

    Take a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.

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      1 day ago

      Throw it into water or gelatin. At thousands of metres per second the air is going to seem much more dense.

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        1 day ago

        I don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.

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      2 days ago

      If it’s like a frisbee, yeah, but it still curves. Now start it spinning like spinning a coin on edge. The curving will be much more dramatic.