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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to attack a famous rich lady who people worship at the altar of celebrity, have a go at Megyn Kelly.

Attacking a woman who survived a drug addicted birth mother, foster care, years of sexual abuse and gaslighting to rise to the top of her sport and stayed in to protect others, who pushed her body [b]past known limits of physics [/b]and is always positive in her messages to young girls and women, you may want to re-asses your life.  [/quote]

Ludicrous.  Please tell me you're in a non-tech field.[/quote]

To say she is the greatest female gymnast of all time is not an understatement — indeed, she may just be the greatest, having shown her ability to pull off moves previously considered the preserve of male athletes, like the notoriously difficult Yurchenko double pike. (Biles herself occasionally wears leotards embellished with a goat.)

These heroic feats leave audiences speechless, but to understand them, we must turn to the thing Biles’ athleticism seems to bend: physics.

“ONCE SHE’S IN THE AIR, SHE IS A PROJECTILE.”

David Young, a physicist at Louisiana State University who has investigated the physics of this sport before, explains that part of what sets Biles apart is her ability to act as the conductor to a symphony of factors that play into each movement.

“What sets her apart is her strength, balance, coordination, and muscle control that produce faster rotation rates once she’s in the air,” he tells Inverse after examining the footage of her latest feat.

Young makes a few back-of-the-envelope calculations:

Biles launches into the triple-double at about 14.7 miles per hour from a 71-degree angle
She reaches a peak of 9.5 feet and travels 6.5 feet from where she launched
The impact force from the landing is 382 pounds of force, which is more than three times the gymnast’s weight

https://shura.shu.ac.uk/14332/1/McInerney%20-%20Simone%20Biles%20%28AM%29.pdf
https://justwomenssports.com/simone-biles-in-slow-motion-rewrites-the-laws-of-physics/
https://www.inverse.com/science/the-terrific-physics-of-simone-biles
https://www.wired.com/story/the-incredible-physics-of-simone-biles-yurchenko-double-pike/
https://awards.journalists.org/entries/the-gravity-defying-physics-of-simone-biles/[/quote]

Checkmate, Ludicrous![/quote]

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