Krebs' Free form/Chaos Thread

[krebs303]

 

[krebs303]

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

One of the worst fakes ever. A rising fastball is a myth.

 

[RetroActive]

The Eye In The Triangle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9h2eNHB4vY

 

[gregod]

One of the worst fakes ever. A rising fastball is a myth.

it's not fake. it's a wiffleball.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

it's not fake. it's a wiffleball.

You see the difference there? None of the balls are rising. Except the fake one.
A rising ball is physically impossible...

True "rising" balls just seem to be rising because of a later drop than a usual fastball, because of velocity, and because of the spin...
If a rising ball existed, Pedro or at least Aroldis would have shown it.

So here is the best it can get in terms of "rising":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngubly4hpHw

 

[The GCW]

 

[The GCW]

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

More about physics and "rising" myths:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1VClnk3l-k

 

[The GCW]

 

[gregod]

You see the difference there? None of the balls are rising. Except the fake one.
A rising ball is physically impossible...

True "rising" balls just seem to be rising because of a later drop than a usual fastball, because of velocity, and because of the spin...
If a rising ball existed, Pedro or at least Aroldis would have shown it.

So here is the best it can get in terms of "rising":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngubly4hpHw

i'm not quite sure what you are saying here. are you asserting that one of the wiffleball pitches is fake?

while it is true that rising fastballs are an optical illusion, a rising ball is not physically impossible. perhaps a human cannot generate enough force to do it, but that is not the same as saying it is not physically possible. in other words, it is not humanly possible. however, the same aerodynamic forces that create lift in a wing can create lift in a baseball with the correct orientation, spin, initial velocity, and a few other conditions.

as for the wiffleball, given that it is hollow and has holes only on one side it is pretty easy to see that with the correct orientation and enough initial force, lift is generated in the short distance to the target.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

as for the wiffleball, given that it is hollow and has holes only on one side it is pretty easy to see that with the correct orientation and enough initial force, lift is generated in the short distance to the target.

Ahh ok, I got fooled twice.
1) I thought it was real baseball pitchers
2) Never heard of whiffle-balls. Thought it was a new art of real pitching, like when the knuckle-ball came up with Niekro...

Ok, then it might be no fake. I thought it was another idiotic gif like some wanna -bes trying to convince the world that humans can throw real footballs 100 yards...

Thx for enlightning me about "waffle-ball".

 

[gregod]

Ahh ok, I got fooled twice.
1) I thought it was real baseball pitchers
2) Never heard of whiffle-balls. Thought it was a new art of real pitching, like when the knuckle-ball came up with Niekro...

Ok, then it might be no fake. I thought it was another idiotic gif like some wanna -bes trying to convince the world that humans can throw real footballs 100 yards...

Thx for enlightning me about "waffle-ball".

it didn't even occur to me that you didn't know what a wiffle ball was. sorry about that.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

No prob. Always learning. Played Baseball for so long. But the "waffle-ball" never made it to Europe. So once again, learned something today.
In the chaos thread, imagine...

 

[The GCW]

 

[gregod]

No prob. Always learning. Played Baseball for so long. But the "waffle-ball" never made it to Europe. So once again, learned something today.
In the chaos thread, imagine...

wiffle also makes golf balls which are a load of fun.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Oh I am not into golf. So I dont know whats possible there. Maybe the ball moves around the hole before falling in?!

 

[gregod]

in japan, "bad" girls wear ankle length skirts. this is not a joke.

this is only a cartoon, but you get the idea.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Like this one?

 

[krebs303]

it's not fake. it's a wiffleball.

My cousins and I spent many hours playing wiffle ball in the front yard.

At times we would switch to a ping pong ball which you could get a lot of movement like shown in the .gif

 

[Netserk]

 

[krebs303]

Lockheed Martin Claims Sustainable Fusion Is Within Its Grasp

NEWS ANALYSIS: Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works claims the ability to generate cheap energy from nuclear fusion with little waste or global warming is within its grasp.


Imagine a source of electrical power that uses water for fuel, produces byproducts that are totally safe and releases no air pollution.
Then imagine that once it's up and running, it'll be so portable that an entire power plant could fit into the cargo hold of an airplane. Now, imagine that it'll be running in prototype form in five years and operating commercially in ten.
It sounds like science fiction, but it's not. However, it is being built by a group of scientists and engineers in a place that's legendary for doing what was thought to be impossible in a remarkably short amount of time. This place, which is part of Lockheed Martin's aeronautics business, is popularly known as the Skunk Works.
This is the same Skunk Works created by the near-mythical Kelly Johnson, an aerospace engineer able to head teams that built the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance jet years before any other organization even thought Mach-3 flight was possible.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Furcations - what does that word mean? (In the dentistry sort of business...)

Egad!

 

[LaFlorecita]

Furcations - what does that word mean? (In the dentistry sort of business...)

Egad!

It's a phenomenom related to periodontitis, an irreversable form of gingivitis, basically when your gingivitis gets so bad that the alveolar bone (the bone in which the teeth are secured) begins to resorb. As the bone (and with it the gums) resorbs, the roots of the teeth become visible. A furcation defect is when this happens to a molar, which has 2 or 3 roots. Because the bone and the gums resorb, the area between the roots becomes accessible, which means food or plaque might get stuck in here which will only cause further deterioration.

 

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