What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered “hit by pitch,” and would be eligible to advance to first base.
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“You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”
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But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.