Apparently this really is turning into a true Cow Site! I just couldn’t resist myself from commenting on an article in The Times.
Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, and her student Tracy Boechler have been boing some very interesting studies on the physics of cow-tipping. I’m so glad I am not a tax paying citizen in Canada.
And it seems that what we hear in bars, from friends and colleagues are all just a HOAX!!!! Unless of course they were a party of 5 when tipping the cow (you know on their last trip to the outback part of nowhere).
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.
Then have we been lied to all these years? Or do we just know some really fast people:
The static physics of the issue say . . . two people might be able to tip a cow,” she said. “But the cow would have to be tipped quickly — the cow’s centre of mass would have to be pushed over its hoof before the cow could react.
