• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      111·
      5 days ago

      Also, air resistance was acting on the baby immediately after it left the hands accelerating it. So was she reporting peak speed or the speed several feet away as shown in the frame of the comic. Additionally, she could have easily avoided this ambiguity if she stated the hypothetical speed of the baby being as if it was thrown in a vacuum, but she didn’t do that either. Its just pure laziness really.

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    4 days ago

    Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark. For obvious reasons.

    That and there’s no way the kid in this cartoon is 32 months. That’s 2 years, 8 months. Walking and talking and likely ~15kg. While not impossible, that would be pretty hard to yeet up to 16.4 mph.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        4 days ago

        I do! I had figured out the amount of force required to throw a 15kg child over a 0.5s throw up to 7.33 m/s (16.4 mph) at ~220 Newtons, but then I figured that information wasn’t particularly useful to anyone really, so I just left it out.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark.

      I know plenty of parents who refer to their kid in months through year two, as you’re hitting milestones every month or two (vaccines, physical/psychological development, age limit for certain pharmaceuticals, etc) and “2 years” is such a big milestone for them all.

      Also, kids who are premature make things extra complicated. I still refer to my son as “13-months adjusted” because if I said “16-months” people would wonder why he was so small.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        4 days ago

        While I agree with you, I also have to say that a significant percentage of people have no idea of the size difference between 13 and 16 months, and that saying 13 months adjusted is a little silly, but fun! So you do you.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          people have no idea of the size difference between 13 and 16 months

          People with their own children notice the difference more readily

          • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            4 days ago

            People with kids at those ages definitely. Anecdotally, mine’s more grown up now, and I don’t remember how big she was at those ages.

            I do remember searching a whole lot of XX-month-milestone on the Internet when she was small.

  • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    4 days ago

    Fun fact: if you take the displacement between your current position and the exact place where you were born, and divide it by your age, you can get your average velocity

    • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
      1·
      4 days ago

      As one of the Americans, home of useless made up measurements, I’ve made an effort to get used to using Celsius at least, mostly just by using weather reports that use it. And while it hasn’t provided much utility living here other than understanding comments made by foreigners occasionally, I do like the system so much better.

      This next year I’ll start trying to familiarize myself with length/distance.

      I love how metric works so much better. It definitely hits a happy spot in my brain for organization.

      Due to living here I can’t just forget the murican system, but it would be nice not to try to need a conversion lookups every time I hear a story about something that happens somewhere else.

      • Jumbie@lemmy.zip
        1·
        4 days ago

        I’ve made an effort to learn just so I can better understand these dumb fucking European insults.

        It’s the same as a dumb American going to France to complain about the French language.