The Times story about cow tipping showed a quaint understanding about physics. If cows were rigid, it would have been convincing. But unless you are trying to tip a dead cow with rigor mortis, that's not what obtains.
Cows lock their legs when sleeping, but not their hips and shoulders. Unbalancing a cow does not require that you rotate the entire beast around a pivot point at its hoofs, but rather only requires that you start the torso moving at a speed from which the cow cannot recover. I assure you it is entirely possible to tip a cow.
Important safety tip: Don't try to tip a bull. They are not as tolerant as cows and they run faster than people.
Always trying to figure things out with the minimum of bullshit and the maximum of belligerence.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Cowtipping -- possible after all?
A few days ago I found an article about zoologist using physics to show that cowtipping is impossible. Or is it?
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