• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      Also, air resistance was acting on the baby immediately after it left the hands accelerating it. So was she reporting peak speed or the speed several feet away as shown in the frame of the comic. Additionally, she could have easily avoided this ambiguity if she stated the hypothetical speed of the baby being as if it was thrown in a vacuum, but she didn’t do that either. Its just pure laziness really.

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    3 months ago

    Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark. For obvious reasons.

    That and there’s no way the kid in this cartoon is 32 months. That’s 2 years, 8 months. Walking and talking and likely ~15kg. While not impossible, that would be pretty hard to yeet up to 16.4 mph.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        3 months ago

        I do! I had figured out the amount of force required to throw a 15kg child over a 0.5s throw up to 7.33 m/s (16.4 mph) at ~220 Newtons, but then I figured that information wasn’t particularly useful to anyone really, so I just left it out.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, for most parents, measuring age in months ends right around the one year mark.

      I know plenty of parents who refer to their kid in months through year two, as you’re hitting milestones every month or two (vaccines, physical/psychological development, age limit for certain pharmaceuticals, etc) and “2 years” is such a big milestone for them all.

      Also, kids who are premature make things extra complicated. I still refer to my son as “13-months adjusted” because if I said “16-months” people would wonder why he was so small.

      • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 months ago

        While I agree with you, I also have to say that a significant percentage of people have no idea of the size difference between 13 and 16 months, and that saying 13 months adjusted is a little silly, but fun! So you do you.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          people have no idea of the size difference between 13 and 16 months

          People with their own children notice the difference more readily

          • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            3 months ago

            People with kids at those ages definitely. Anecdotally, mine’s more grown up now, and I don’t remember how big she was at those ages.

            I do remember searching a whole lot of XX-month-milestone on the Internet when she was small.