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Old Thu May 11, 2006, 11:27pm
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Talking Saw a video of a cow atop a barn

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Originally Posted by nickrego
It is mathematically impossible to throw a rising fastball.
A) The ball is spinning in the wrong direction.
B) Round objects don't create lift like a wing when traveling through air.
C) The ball is traveling at a downward trajectory with too much energy to overcome direction and gravity.
D) I see rising fastballs all the time !
Saw the video on TV of a cow standing on the roof of a barn.
Folks around here would swear UP and down that it was scientifically impossible for a cow to climb atop a barn.
Some are still wondering how the cow climbed UP there because it can't be explained mathematically.

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