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.