Cow tipping...
Everyone's heard a story from a friend. Bunch of people were hanging out, getting drunk, and sure enough someone decided to go out cow tipping, with some story of angering the cow and jumping over a fence before it got to you.
Well... it just ain't so:Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, and her student Tracy Boechler have conducted a study on the physics of cow-tipping.
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A cow of 1.45 metres in height pushed at an angle of 23.4 degrees relative to the ground would require 2,910 Newtons of force, equivalent to 4.43 people, she wrote.
Dr Lillie, Ms Boechler’s supervisor, revised the calculations so that two people could exert the required amount of force to tip a static cow, but only if it did not react. Cows can't be tipped.
You heard it here first.
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Bwana 
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How many people did it take (and how fast did you have to run afterwards)?
Cow was on a slight incline. Adequate wind to cover sound of approach. The two got a running start, hit the cow, sort of spun away, and ran like the dickens and dove over a fence with the cow every bit of fifteen feet behind them and closing.
In this case I sat with the cold, gray few who do not dream great dreams, but as I was getting a ride home from the perpetrators I stood by the car and simply watched in amazement.
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