In Baseball, a Pitcher who throws at a great Batter’s head, has confessed his incompetence the world.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 12, 2013
Not that anybody asked, but a baseball thrown 90 mph has about the same energy as a 0.22 caliber bullet fired from a handgun.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 12, 2013
.@toolpackinmama: I follow you to escape sports stuff. //But physics is everywhere. Even in places people wish it weren’t.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 12, 2013
I am not a physicist by a longshot, but I’m feeling like, even though I agree with his point, there’s something off about the comparison as it relates to the shape of the objects, spin and stuff like that. I mean, I don’t ever want to see guys hit in the head with a ball, but I sort of feel like 100 guys hit in the head with 90 m.p.h. fastballs would do better, on the whole, than 100 guys shot in the head with a .22.
Or am I falling victim to the old “which weighs more, 100 pounds of lead or 100 pounds of feathers” joke? I may be. There’s a reason why I was a social sciences major.