《那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題》第75期:高擲比賽(3)

The speed improvement from using a golfball instead of a baseball would probably not be very large, but it seemsplausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw agolf ball faster than a baseball.

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扔高爾夫球而非棒球帶來的速度提升可能不是很大，但我們有理由相信，一個經過一段時間訓練的專業投手能更快地扔出高爾夫球。

If so, based on aerodynamic calculations,Aroldis Chapman could probably throw a golf ball about sixteen giraffes high:

如果是這樣的話，基於空氣動力學計算，查普曼扔出的高爾夫球差不多能達到16只長頸鹿這麼高：

This is probably about the maximum possiblealtitude for a thrown object.

這大概是一個投擲物所能達到的最高的高度了……

. . . unless you count the technique bywhich any five-year-old can beat all these records easily.

……除非你用一點小技巧，否則任何一個5歲的小孩都能輕鬆打破這些紀錄：

1 Citation: my Little League career.

1．來源：我的少年棒球聯盟生涯。

2 Counterexample: my Little League career.

2．反例：我的少年棒球聯盟生涯。

3 Where they remained forever.

3．然後就一直留在那兒了。

4 And a lot of other data, too.

4．還有許多無關的數據。