Rob Gronkowski sets Guinness World Record by catching football thrown 620 feet from helicopter

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Harumph.

My grumpy old man reaction is, "If it's really hard, why take the injury risk?"

And if it ain't that hard, then it's just stupid.

Fuck Gronk. And yes, I'm still bitter
 
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ReekofRams said:
So you use get thrown from helicopters?
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Well, the Wright Brothers tossed one at Kittyhawk. And then later, Howard Hughes tossed one from the Spruce Goose on its maiden flight...
 
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Meh Goat GIF by MOODMAN
 
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Idk what the terminal velocity of a football is, but I bet he's caught passes moving faster than that ball was. Just a guess, maybe I'm wrong.
 
1maGoh said:
Idk what the terminal velocity of a football is, but I bet he's caught passes moving faster than that ball was. Just a guess, maybe I'm wrong.
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If you are at the surface of the earth the acceleration is g = 32.2 feet/sec2 or 9.8 meter/sec2. Integrating the acceleration once gives V = Vo + g T where Vo is the initial velocity, presumably zero, and T is the time of fall. Integrating once more gives d = Vo T + gT2/2. So taking Vo = 0 you get
T = sqrt(2d/g) and V=sqrt(2dg).
 
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Loyal said:
If you are at the surface of the earth the acceleration is g = 32.2 feet/sec2 or 9.8 meter/sec2. Integrating the acceleration once gives V = Vo + g T where Vo is the initial velocity, presumably zero, and T is the time of fall. Integrating once more gives d = Vo T + gT2/2. So taking Vo = 0 you get
T = sqrt(2d/g) and V=sqrt(2dg).
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Cool story, but what's the terminal velocity of a football?
 
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Loyal said:
If you are at the surface of the earth the acceleration is g = 32.2 feet/sec2 or 9.8 meter/sec2. Integrating the acceleration once gives V = Vo + g T where Vo is the initial velocity, presumably zero, and T is the time of fall. Integrating once more gives d = Vo T + gT2/2. So taking Vo = 0 you get
T = sqrt(2d/g) and V=sqrt(2dg).
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Gronks next act. Determine if a bear shits in the woods but no one is close enough to smell it....does it smell like shit?
 
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That's why I come here. To read about Gronk Robowski's stupid fucking face.

Thanks, so, so much for sharing this here, in Rams discussion. ;)
 
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I like how if you jump around and yell in a video in the last 10 years or so that makes whatever happened suddenly relevant and exciting no matter how mundane or idiotic it may be.
 
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Gronk is such a dork. He isn't cool, and he knows it, so he "tries" to act cool. Forced coolness never works, and it doesn't for him.

I wouldn't hang with him, party with him, or ever be around him.

Even his nickname sucks...Gronk...how stupid!
 
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Loyal said:
*hands pencil and slide rule to 1maGoh
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1. I just vomited in my mouth a little reading the words "slide rule"
2. Things don't just accelerate at 9.8m/s² into infinity; shape and other factors determine the maximum speed of a falling object (here's an article on squirrels https://animalworldfacts.com/can-squirrels-survive-any-fall-how-they-do-it/ . If you don't like the source, Google it yourself, the answer is the same everywhere.)
3. Footballs aren't perfectly aerodynamic shapes, so I'm sure that their terminal velocity (which is when they stop accelerating due to wind resistance, not how fast they are going when they hit the earth) is less than a 6"diameter perfect orb of lead.
 
Ellard80 said:
I like how if you jump around and yell in a video in the last 10 years or so that makes whatever happened suddenly relevant and exciting no matter how mundane or idiotic it may be.
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Exactly. Put this in the worthless social media diva category.
 
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