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I Went Curling and Not Even Physics Could Save Me
« on: February 18, 2018, 01:33:10 pm »
I Went Curling and Not Even Physics Could Save Me
By Ryan F. Mandelbaum on 14 Feb 2018 at 6:00PM

Before I went curling last month with my partner’s family at the Grand Forks Curling Club in North Dakota, I figured that getting the basics down would be simple enough. Push a heavy rock hard enough to get it to the other side of the ice, and that’s it, right? Wrong. I was in for a much more complicated physics lesson than I expected. Here are the basics of gravity and friction, for example:

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/02/i-went-curling-and-not-even-physics-could-save-me/

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Re: I Went Curling and Not Even Physics Could Save Me
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 04:50:35 pm »
Here's Destin's original video...
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