Super Mario, Super Gravity

February 9th, 2009

MarioHere’s an interesting bit of research. Two students revisited every Super Mario video game and, based on how far and fast Mario fell, calculated the acceleration due to gravity. The lowest is still more than four times the actual value, with the highest up by a factor of eleven.

Link: http://hypertextbook.com/…
(via mental_floss)

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