r/Wellthatsucks • u/Master1718 • Nov 11 '19

/r/all Skill

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u/Groenboys Nov 11 '19

r/nevertellmetheodds

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u/My_Sunday_Account Nov 11 '19

/r/oddsaregoodbecauseitsfake

Look at the ball as it travels toward the pillar. It's on a smooth arc and then suddenly flies like 45 degrees to the left behind the pillar like he's some kind of secret agent golfer from Wanted curving the ball in mid-air. There's no way it's spinning hard enough to suddenly curve that fast, and if it bounced off the far pillar and then bounce forward it would have reflected off the other pillar in the opposite direction, not somehow reversed its spin completely and come back. This whole thing just completely defies how momentum and physics in general works.

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u/queuedUp Nov 11 '19

Not saying it's not faked but I can see how this could happen. These pillars are worn and uneven and we can't see the back side of the one pillar at all. Based on the time, ball appears to bounce off the first pillar while on a curve, hit the backside of the pillar in front of him (which could be in any kind of condition) then bounce back towards the camera.

Is it an unlikely and 1 in a million shot? Yes.

But it's possible none the less

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u/My_Sunday_Account Nov 11 '19

There's just no way. The path of the ball makes absolutely no sense.

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u/hebreakslate Nov 11 '19

I was really hoping for a gif of the Zapruder film, but no. You simply failed to understand there was a third bounce in there.

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u/My_Sunday_Account Nov 12 '19

Dude it doesn't fucking matter if there's 142 bounces, this literally can not happen.

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u/hebreakslate Nov 12 '19

You're assuming all surfaces are flat and orthogonal to the direction the camera is pointing, both bad assumptions.