Slightly OT. From here:
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Sigh :rolleyes:
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Give me a break!
Just thought it would be interesting give actual paintball speeds for comparison with the speeds already mentioned even if it was brought up tongue-in -cheek. I think it is a valid answer to the original question.
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A more interesting question might be, what sport has the fastest ball when it hits you? Or even more interesting, what sports ball has the highest kinetic energy when it hits you? 
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After reading this thread I looked on youtube.com to see if I could find a video of people playing jai alai. I did find a video of the Jackass guys gettng nailed with oranges thrown by some jai alai players. I’m thinking that just having somebody throw an orange at you normally would hurt a bit. Check out Steve-O’s knee after getting knocked down by one.
Two posts so far have spelled the word “badmitton” because it’s sometimes pronounced that way. Why the /n/ sound drops out before /t/ is a mystery, because that doesn’t happen with any other words in English with the -nt- consonant cluster. In Hebrew, however, historical -nt- is regularly assimilated to -tt-. Compare Arabic anta, Hebrew attah; Arabic sunbulah, Hebrew shibboleth. Where Proto-Semitic had /n/ before a consonant, Hebrew assimilated it.
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After reading this thread I looked on youtube.com to see if I could find a video of people playing jai alai. I did find a video of the Jackass guys gettng nailed with oranges thrown by some jai alai players. I’m thinking that just having somebody throw an orange at you normally would hurt a bit. Check out Steve-O’s knee after getting knocked down by one.
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Yeah, I’ll take 90mph baseball over a 210mph shuttlecock any day.
heh… there might have been sarcasm built into that last post, but it wasn’t enough…
Suffice it to say I would take the shuttlecock at almost any speed. 