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Stone Skipping the Scientific Way
Quirk writes "National Geographic has a bit on the scientific analysis of stone skipping. Using a machine launching aluminum disks Lyderic Bocquet, a physics professor at the University of Lyon, and his colleagues discovered the 'magic angle' of 20 degrees as that required to maximize skipping. 'Jerdone Coleman McGhee of Wimberley, Texas, holds the current Guinness Book of World Records title for a 1992 toss that yielded an impressive 38 bounces across the Blanco River in central Texas'"
This fp should be a reminder: Never let your spirits go down, and you can do anything you set your heart to.
Slow Down Cowboy!
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Wow, I never realized Barnes-Wallace invented bouncing jizz as well. Cool!
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
I had like 39 skips on the pond behind my old house. yeah. Two words everyone. Tabloid journalism. (please read article and moderator guidelines before modding down.) k. thx.
Lyon is in Arkansas. Rednecks studyin' skippin stones, w00t! /Fayettevillian
thats cuz your'e an uncordinated clod.