If you were to throw a ball in outer space, say, like when you were doing a extravehicular walk outside your spacecraft flying beyond earth's orbit, it would just continue going due to inertia. However, other planets have their own gravity, and their own drag force depending on the atmosphere. Planetary scientist <a href="https://jamesodonoghue.wixsite.com/home">James O'Donoghue</a> made us a visualization of how far a ball thrown at a 45 degree angle would go in the conditions of different planets in our solar system, plus the moon.

Well, baseball fans, you watched this and thought about how nice it would be to have a league playing on Mars. But then, there's the moon! And the moon is easier to get to than Mars, anyway. Oh, but what about Pluto? That's pie in the sky, so to speak, because it's going to be very hard to get to Pluto, and I hear it's pretty cold there, too. -via <a href="https://laughingsquid.com/throwing-ball-on-other-planets/">Laughing Squid</a>&nbsp;#baseball #planet #moon #physics #visualization

How Far Can You Throw a Ball on Other Planets? 

Watch as COVID-19 swept across the United States from January 2020 to October 2021 in this short video clip by <a href="http://www.nicholasbauer.com/">Nicholas Bauer</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://twitter.com/BioTurboNick">@bioturbonick</a>)Bauer, a computational biologist and postdoctoral&nbsp; research fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, used data from the <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html">Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center</a> for the striking visualization. In the video clip below, you can see the various individual counties of the United States change color as cases spike during the pandemic. The brighter colors indicate closer to the maximum number of cases seen in that county.#covid19 #coronavirus #visualization #NicholasBauer #USA #USAMap ​Related:&nbsp;<a href="https://laughosaurus.com/p/we-dont-talk-about-covid-no-no-no-encantos-we-dont-talk-about-bruno-parody-song-by-the-holderness-family" class="on">We Don't Talk About Covid, No no no</a>