Man powered projectiles

Ian Botham (Broke a world record for throwing a cricket ball when only 14, it could have been because of the three shredded wheat, but all data on this has been destroyed).

Jan Zelezny world javelyin record, 98.48m with legal javelyin, but threw further with a modified design, distance around 110m.

Discus: Gabrielle Reinsch, 76.8m; almost 3m more than the men, due to the lighter weight discus, and body mass, timing and technique have even roles to play.

Hammer: Yuriy Sedykh, 86.74m

Long Jump: 8.95m Mike Powell, held since 1991

Aerobie Record: some Muppet 410.15m.

Sling: 477m

Ian Botham (all stand please!) is a national treasure in the UK. The thing about the 3 shredded wheat is a rumour, He didn't need them! (He wasn't called 'Beefy' for nothing!) I think David Schummy threw a boomerang for 1,401.5 ft (427.17m) in Queensland, Australia in 2005. Unaided that, non of this 'spoiling a good walk' equipment to help!

Was that a round trip?

I'm afraid not.

The furthest distance traveled by a man powered projectile is 81,016,559 miles (as of this morning). It's the golf ball hit by Mikhail Tyurin, outside the International Space Station on November 22, 2006. The golf ball is now orbiting the earth.

www.e21golf.com

(I am not affiliated with E21 Golf in any way. I think golf is stupid.)

Ah...

I meant on the earth, but hey it's still a great answer!

I agree with your analysis of golf....bu I still I play it! lol.

I think maybe a baseball might not travel the farthest, but it has a LOT of energy behind it. I don't feel like doing the equation and looking up the mass of a baseball right now.

Also, trebuchets needed to be manually wound by men. Same idea as a bow, exept big rocks.

Well Dell; I guess you wouldn't have ever guessed it would be the Ashman that put forth his answer. Go figure! Going by your rules of engagement; Man, to propel and object, starts from Earth. I submit my answer as this...Man used his mind and vast experience from history to think of the idea, and later create, then propel Voyager! That is the most far. Physicsly speaking. What's my prize? What's my prize? I will not except what the strawman got! lol ( And I don't want to add another a-h*** of the year award either! )

You are a tease...

I meant propelled by muscle power alone.

However you do get a prize...unfortunately it is on board voyager!

Cheers

Del

Oh pooh! Well at least someday someone will get it back. Oh ya?, what if was just somebody that picked up stona and threw it out of an airship over the deepest depths of the ocean and it ended up a mile or 2 below sea level. Guess not, but what ever it turns out to be I bet it is one of those mit'less Cricket players that caught it. Ash out on this one!

Technically he has thrown his voice further, with radio waves leaving the earths atmosphere a few decades before any probes were sent in to space.

There are many model sailplanes that are man powered. They are given their forward momemtum by arm power alone, no rockets, no cheating of any kind, just a good hill. They have spent 12 hours or more aloft and landed from a point as high or higher than the launch point. Google slope soaring models. Do they count???

Excellent!

Yeah! I s'pose they count...not quite what I had in mind but it sounds great to me!

The sling which someone else mentioned was impressive too, it reminded me of an old Irish chap I used to work with, who told me how (as kids) he and his mates made what he called 'pole slings' a bit like a trebuchet arm and sling which you swung manually.

We used green tree branches and a large lump of damp clay clamped around the end and we could whip those clay balls several hundred yards.....they would take your eye out if you got in the way.....damn dangerous kids!

Probably the golf ball hit during the moon landing, unless he 'fluffed` the shot.

(If your def. is "Man Powered" you may include stored energy devices and thus

all sorts of arcainia like the springald and onager come into play as well as the

more pedestrian bow and crossbow.)

I have read somewhere that a man had thrown a frizbee over a kilometer. I dont know if this was over a flat land. However based on the principle of the flying disc I would put more faith on the frizbee than the golf ball.