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Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo

Posted by kdawson on from the parabolic-stripes dept.

KentuckyFC writes "Is it really possible for a 350-pound tiger to leap a 12.5-foot barrier from 33 feet away? (Said another way: a 159-kg tiger, a 3.8 m barrier, and 10 m away.) A physicist at Northeastern University has done the math, a straightforward problem in ballistics, and the answer turns out to be yes (abstract on the physics arXiv). But I guess we already knew that following the death of Carlos Souza at the paws of Tatiana, a Siberian Tiger he had allegedly been taunting at San Francisco zoo at the end of last year."

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  1. Enough already! by sootman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot itself is one of the original blogs. It would be a very boring place if they did nothing but link to CNet stories and press releases. There are lots of interesting people out there that you've never heard of (and otherwise wouldn't hear of) and they are doing lots of interesting things. So can we kill the 'pimpmyblog' tags already? If you don't like reading blog stories, go start your own news aggregator/discussion forum. Maybe with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the site...

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  2. Re:Which begs the question... by thirty-seven · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Begs the question"?

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