A boomerang is a flat, curved, usually wooden missile configured so that when hurled it returns to the thrower. Physics say that it's all due to those two rotating arms. They're joined at an angle of 105-110 degrees, and one side of them is slightly rounded like an airplane's wing.
Why boomerangs come back.
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Do you know what you call a boomerang that doesn't come back..
a stick
When I was a kid, somebody gave me a boomerang. Nasty thing, made of plywood, i threw it and it flopped about and crashed. i soon lost interest.
Then, many years later, I was walking across a park with a friend, and found a boomerang in the long grass. "These things never work", I said, throwing it.. A few moments later I had to drop flat, as the boomerang returned, zinging wickedly through the space my head had just been in... Then it went round again and had another go... I threw it again with the same results.
On the bottom it said "Hawes Boomerangs, Australia"#
Sir Lorin Lindley Hawes was an American nuclear physicist who became disillusioned with research toward world-war III.
"Lorin Hawes started out as a U.S. nuclear physicist, but in 1956 he emigrated to Australia because, he says, "I was fed up with warmongering, hillbilly officers, the CIA, the Pentagon, the whole damn lot." He lectured in Australian universities, but by 1965 found Australian society also becoming too militaristic for his liking. He then turned for his living to what had become his hobby: making and throwing boomerangs. Says the 39-year-old Hawes, a sardonic, 280-lb. mountain of a man: "I decided to join the select group of people who work less and earn more by being unproductive. What could be more unproductive than throwing boomerangs? If you want the damn thing back, why throw it in the first place?"
I used to make boomerangs as a student.... our dog hated them... I would throw them and the silly beast would try to fetch them, which made it run like hell ofcourse....
You can make a very functional boomerang with two good old fashioned wooden 12" rulers - the ones that are flat on the back and raised on the front. Join them together in a X shape with the raised sides towards you and throw just like a boomerang. IME they work better than the traditional boomerang.
BTW not all boomerangs were designed to come back.
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