So that's how boomerangs work!

vnkid · 6 months

The arm doesn't move the boomerang at all. The boomerang stays where it is and moves the universe around it.

tmeyers314 · 6 months

His source is that he's Australian. Must be legit!

joneil27b6 · 6 months

"seemed most informative...but I don't know if you're completely right or not." Am I wrong in saying this describes almost half the upvotes on Reddit?

Xenxe · 6 months

/r/ExplainLikeImCalvin

needs this man

ichiro101 · 6 months

FYI, incase if you want to know how boomerangs actually work. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/why-exactly-does-a-boomerang-return-back-to-the-thrower

retsknurt · 6 months

It also stuns bad guys.

genericname12345 · 6 months

"That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it."

andnowforme0 · 6 months

...seems legit

Bilibond · 6 months

That doesn't seem right, but I don't know enough about physics to dispute it.

El_Chap · 6 months

My mind was blown so fucking hard after reading this. I'm surprised Galileo didn't figure out that the earth rotated around the boomerang and not the sun.

bordslampa · 6 months

I call fake.

Question and answer 7 minutes apart.

loose_seal_2 · 6 months

What do you call a Boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick

The_Fjordster · 6 months

But really, do boomerangs come back? If not, where did that falsity come from?

Tlasan · 6 months

I've got a pretty cool story:

I have second cousins who live in Australia, and when they came to visit (Canada), they brought me some boomerangs. One was decorative, and one was for throwing and stuff. That shit was fun. I was in elementary school at the time, and I brought that shit with me. I was throwing it, and it would sometimes come back (my cousins taught me how to throw it properly so it would come back). I taught my friends how to throw it properly, and it was fun. Of course the ENTIRE school comes to check it out... It's a fucking boomerang amongst about a hundred 8 year olds. It was a really fun time for me and all the other kids... until some asshole wanted to throw it without knowing how to use it and managed to break it...

dego_frank · 6 months

My family went to Yellowstone quite often for vacations when we were younger. There was a badass dollar store there with all kinds of cool toys. We would always buy some boomerangs but we could never throw them well enough to get them to come back. Back at home when my parents were out, my brother and I went to our front porch when I told my brother "watch this." There were quite a few obstacles (fence, tree, carport) to navigate but the boomerang managed to fly around all of it. Since neither my brother nor myself had ever thrown it successfully, we were scared shitless when it made it's loop and we realized it was coming right back to us. Being chickenshit kids we both looked at each other in disbelief then hit the deck. It broke against a support for the roof :(

pinecolamon · 6 months

Cubert J. Farnsworth: I understand how the engines work now. It came to me in a dream. The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is, and the engines move the universe around it. Bender: That's a complete load! Cubert J. Farnsworth: Nothing's a complete load! Not if you can imagine it. That's what being a scientist is all about.

PlumDrop · 6 months

Someone give this guy a medal.

bazookajoe417 · 6 months

I thought boomerangs landing on the roof of my house was them "working".

Zombiehoar · 6 months

"Source: I'm Australian." Huh...Seems legit. I mean, who can argue with Australians?

Chaseman69 · 6 months

əɔɹnos əʇɐɯıʇıƃəl ɐ əʞıl sɯəəs

paint99 · 6 months

That would mean the boomerange would only work in one direction.

fireice22 · 6 months

He's Australian back off.

badabora · 6 months

Being Australian helps.

FeroxDeoVacuusVinco · 6 months

Welcome to Yahoo Answers: where trolls troll trolls.

GALACTICA-Actual · 6 months

This is true: it's in the Bible.

howBoomerangWorks · 6 months

Boomerangs are airfoils, just like airplane wings. The lift along the axis of the throw combines with the angular momentum from the person that threw it to arc it back towards you.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/brng.html

srsbsns · 6 months

Source(s):

I'm Australian.

Good enough for me!

Pridgey · 6 months

I forgot how they work once, but then it came back to me.

b00geyman_ver2 · 6 months

I am also Australian and can confirm this. we use them to hunt dropbears

91Caleb · 6 months

his source checks out

NickCavesMoustache · 6 months

Boomerang!

harrisz2 · 6 months

how the fuck do boomerangs ACTUALLY work?!

davecm010 · 6 months

this is how calvin's dad would've explained it.

coreycares · 6 months

Source(s):

I'm Australian.

lt_hindu · 6 months

Don't give no fucks if this is fake at all. I'm believing it now.

Abscurat · 6 months

It belongs in r/ShittyAskScience.

discsid · 6 months

Troll level: Australian

kevmeister1206 · 6 months

obviously the correct answer is... Aliens.

Joevual · 6 months

I feel like Calvin's dad (from Calvin and Hobbes) writes these answers.

geek180 · 6 months

I actually believed it for a second.

michaeldavidwatson · 6 months

Sources: I'm Australian. lol

sapincher · 6 months

I actually lol'd at the idea of casually throwing up a foam boomerang in the air.... and then that same boomerang shooting back at you at 67,000 mph (speed of earth around sun) and obliterating everything in its path

A_Wild_Missingno · 6 months

He's definitely qualified. Australians are experts at 3 things:

Kangaroos
Boomerangs
Burning their country down

fixxation · 6 months

if this were true there would be a constant 900 mph wind

FishPilot · 6 months

Hahaha! "Source: I'm Australian"

Jbergur · 6 months

If you throw a boomerang in the opposite direction, the earth momentarily spins the other way. That is why we have leap years.

Yes.

mkraheem · 6 months

Actually boomerangs work through magnetic fields. Each boomerang is inherently a magnet due to the cosmic nature of the boomerang shape, so when you throw it, it interacts with the magnetic fields of the earth. If you throw it in the southern hemisphere, it'll come back to you because of the interaction with the south pole, but the north pole has the opposite effect, obviously. This is why boomerangs work in Australia and not North America.

beebhead · 6 months

My friend's grandfather had some old boomerangs on his old office. We threw one of them and it went pretty far and fell into the bushes about 50 yards away. We threw the other one and it went pretty far and fell into the bushes about 60 yards away. We went looking for them but never found them again.

norbpopi · 6 months

Chuck Norris invented the boomerang

kech17 · 6 months

The "Hope this Helps!" make is sound so legit. All the time

TheRealmsOfGold · 6 months

NO GOD EQUATES SIMULTANEOUS 4 DAY CREATION, in 1 Earth rotation.

Cubic Creation of 4 corner separate simultaneous 24 hour Days within 1 Earth rotation - transcends and contradicts the 1 Day rotation/1 God Creation of Christianity - and all ONEism / Singularity religions - proving them to constitute Evil on Earth for the parallel Opposites.

Source: Dr. Gene Ray, www.timecube.com

kaptinkangaroo · 6 months

Question was asked 1 hour ago and the answer was edited 53 minutes ago meaning it was answered and edited with in 7 minutes. Hrmm.

EDIT: fixed my awesome phone typos.

somepulpfiction · 6 months

hah gotta love some mindfuck trolling

IamTheEddy · 6 months

Checkmate Atheists.

toafer · 6 months

chuck norris doesnt wait for boomerangs, boomerangs wait for chuck norris.

persianpimp · 6 months

Cant tell if being serious or sarcastic...

Ye_untaken_username · 6 months

Seems legit

stonedchao · 6 months

hey so what exactly is the point of the boomerang? did some dude invent it just to be like "hey dudes check out this thing that flies and comes back." or does it actually have a practical purpose (besides melee and or throwing it at someone because if it hits them it probably wont come back.)

Tinyrobotzlazerbeamz · 6 months

Crocodile hunter can't be wrong!

fasfsfadfaa · 6 months

Boomerangs are so much fun to throw. You have to practice a bit, but once you get it down you can do some cool things.

divester · 6 months

That sounds right (NOT). Which way does your toilet water spin?

frostbite_96 · 6 months

You know if this wasn't posted in /r/funny I might have bought it

4umlurker · 6 months

this guy belongs on askshittyscience

[deleted] · 6 months

Friend of mine in 8th grade thought this was how planes worked. This was at a gifted school, mind you.

PatrickFromBklyn · 6 months

So boomerangs are causing global warming.

Alonsonater · 6 months

This old man is a master a bending the universe around himself

monacle_man · 6 months

This is a video of how boomerangs work

"We got a lot of trouble, Chief, On account of your son Mack."

"My boy Mack? Why, what's wrong with him?"

DRAKE: My boomerang won't come back.

"Your boomerang won't come back?"

CHINESE_HOTTIE · 6 months

genius

mfo245 · 6 months

source: I'm australian - Seems legit!

cobaltgiant · 6 months

What if you throw your boomerang in the opposite direction of earth's rotation? Then the rotation would just take you farther away from the boomerang over time. If you threw the boomerang north or south, rotation can't have anything to do with it then.

chechenk · 6 months

ahhh... so that's why it's easier to throw it and have it "return" to you in those parts of the world. X|

Sirnoob1 · 6 months

wow a yahoo answer that isnt 1+ years old. Bravo.

74penises · 6 months

Boomerangs are so cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwchJZKdpuo

Jumunju · 6 months

shittyaskscience would like this

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