《那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題》第75期:高擲比賽(3)
The speed improvement from using a golfball instead of a baseball would probably not be very large, but it seemsplausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw agolf ball faster than a baseball.
扔高爾夫球而非棒球帶來的速度提升可能不是很大,但我們有理由相信,一個經過一段時間訓練的專業投手能更快地扔出高爾夫球。
If so, based on aerodynamic calculations,Aroldis Chapman could probably throw a golf ball about sixteen giraffes high:
如果是這樣的話,基於空氣動力學計算,查普曼扔出的高爾夫球差不多能達到16只長頸鹿這麼高:
This is probably about the maximum possiblealtitude for a thrown object.
這大概是一個投擲物所能達到的最高的高度了……
. . . unless you count the technique bywhich any five-year-old can beat all these records easily.
……除非你用一點小技巧,否則任何一個5歲的小孩都能輕鬆打破這些紀錄:
1 Citation: my Little League career.
1.來源:我的少年棒球聯盟生涯。
2 Counterexample: my Little League career.
2.反例:我的少年棒球聯盟生涯。
3 Where they remained forever.
3.然後就一直留在那兒了。
4 And a lot of other data, too.
4.還有許多無關的數據。