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Slingshots xkcd.com/2981

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Lkernelleak.bsky.social

That needs a third column titled "Girls With Slingshots"... :D @dcorsetto.bsky.social

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Notice how he said probably not

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BCfbcooper.bsky.social

Next do elevators

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Jmarchesjohn.bsky.social

Almost conventional slingshot of space flight. One company uses more of a dentifrice though but they slingshot the rocket way up into the atmosphere to save fuel

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Brobtarange.bsky.social

There's an issue of Avengers where Thor uses gravitational slingshotting to get Mjolnir moving fast enough to kill a heavy-duty badguy (who thinks Thor has thrown his hammer away in surrender!)....

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CSstephencobden.bsky.social

I'm fairly certain the UK Dennis the Menace uses a gravitational slingshot semi regularly for actual menace

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3nderall.funnyname.xyz

Used for spacecraft propulsion could also be marked as not yet

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Bbuffntuff.bsky.social

Didn’t we shoot that asteroid a few years ago

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Ttheurge14.bsky.social

Expect to see this in a Marvel movie soon. 🥲

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Ddyqik.bsky.social

I don't see why we can't make interplanetary skeet shooting a sport.

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Randall Munroe
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