THIMK !
I don't want to hear about your *feelings.* I want to hear about *physics.*"G. Scott Hubbard, the director of the Ames Research Center at NASA... said: 'You don't feel this can do anything. But you fire this at 500 miles an hour, and you saw it.'"
Well, sure. I can hear your *feelings.* But I think Newton would thoughtfully disagree.
"...He [finally...] invoked the physics equation that describes the amount of kinetic energy in a moving object, saying, 'That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means." The simple equation says that kinetic energy is one-half times an object's mass times the object's velocity squared, so that even something very light can carry a great deal of force if it is moving fast enough. In fact, he said, the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour.'" [emph mine, all mine, ed]
Timing is the essence of *everything*...
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