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Cow Tipping is a Myth

Posted by samzenpus on from the good-use-of-a-physics-degree dept.

Faeton writes "It's the kind of story you hear from a friend of a friend -- how, after a long night in a rural hostelry and at a loss for entertainment in the countryside, they head out into a nearby field. There, according to the second-hand accounts, they sneak up on an unsuspecting cow and turn the poor animal hoof over udder. But now, much to the relief of dairy herds, the sport of cow-tipping has been debunked as an urban, or perhaps rural, myth by scientists at a Canadian university. "

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  1. Center of mass? by The+Madd+Rapper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is the center of mass really at exactly half the cow's height? Looking at the image in the article, most of the mass is distributed above the COM. The assumption of people only being able to push their own bodyweight is unexplained as well.

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    1. Re:Center of mass? by Scarblac · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is the center of mass really at exactly half the cow's height?

      Of course! First, we assume a spherical cow...

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  2. The real truth. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As someone from bible belt heartland america, we have a few dairy cows. And I personally have been a party to cow tipping, and it is completely possible, and 4 of us did it.

    So tell me how that's impossible again?

  3. Hey! by dacarr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always tip my cows 15%, you insensitive clods!

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