>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom C"
>Subject: Re: Chicken or Egg Photo Story - NY Times
>
>
> >
> > Another alternate explanation could possibly be that the road, being
> > relatively high, slightly sloped and comparatively smooth (less 
>friction),
> > allowed the canon balls to roll to the low point when they hit the road.
> > An
> > object in motion tends to stay in motion.  Since they were likely all 
>shot
> > from the same direction and I would guess, at a relatively oblique 
>angle,
> > their momentum might be such to propel them off the road.
> >
> > Still thinking. :-)
>
>You've obviously never played golf on a sand green course.
>
>William Robb
>

What - are the laws of physics suspended there? :-)

Tom C.



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