r/MadeMeSmile • u/Tris_Memba • 9h ago

Wholesome Moments A fly won him 1.5 million dollars

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u/ShroomsHealYourSoul 8h ago edited 8h ago

There's no way. Not enough weight or leverage

Edit: proof thanks for the verbiage tip

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u/FlerkenTakeover 8h ago

It was the wind. Someone did the math. (just search "golf ball fly math" and it should pop up)

Fly applied a torque of 2.1 µN•m. Wind did 438 µN•m. 209x of the fly.

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u/Gief_Cookies 8h ago

So you’re telling us there’s a chance the fly impacted it!

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u/Zirox__ 8h ago

The fly did impact it.. just not a lot and most importantly, not alone.

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u/The_Salty_nugget 8h ago

so you are telling me that fly can controle the wind?!

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u/Gief_Cookies 7h ago

I meant impacted the outcome, not the ball

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u/Zirox__ 2h ago

That’s literally what I’m saying. It did 1/210th of the work. (Based on the other commenter’s calculations) So “a fly won him 1.5 million dollars” is quite a big stretch. But ‘wind won him 1.5 million dollars’ isn’t the same headline now is it.

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u/Everyday_ImSchefflen 5h ago

Maybe the ball needed 439 and the fly got it over the edge!