PLEASE LIST IN ORDER WHAT A HUMAN CAN PROPELL THE MOST DISTANCE. 1.A
GOLF BALL(with a club}  2.A BASEBALL (with a bat)  3.AN ARROW SHOT
FROM A BOW, OR  4.A STONE FROM A WAR SLING LIKE DAVID USED TO SMITE
THE GIANT IN THE BIBLE.

TRY TO MAKE YOUR ANSWER AS FAIR AND EQUAL AS POSSIBLE BY TAKING THE
SAME TYPE HUMAN SOURCES. (A FIT MAN OR FIT WOMAN ETC.) FOR ALL. 
PLEASE LIST IN DESENDING ORDER.  IF YOU HAVE TO MAKE A GOOD EDUCATED
GUESS BASED ON YOUR RESEARCH IT WILL BE ACCEPTABLE AN I WILL PAY.
THANKYOU,  MCISENCRAFT

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 15 May 2004 11:01 PDT

On the fly?  Or including the normal roll on a flat surface?  Or can
we toss it off a mountainside?  What altitude (there are known
distance factors for both baseballs and golf balls at altitudes of
5,000' to 6,000')?

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Clarification of Question by mcisencraft-ga on 15 May 2004 12:17 PDT

CLARIFICATION TO omnivorous-ga.  
1.Where the object strikes "on the fly" would be best. That way
odd-ball factors like a golfball skipping along the top of a frozen
ice pond vs. a baseball rolling better on asphalt would be eliminated.
2. No reason to "toss it off a mountain"
3. I you want to list the findings at 6,000 feet that is ok. If you
have found a database of some of the answers at 6,000 feet altitude
and some answers at sea level I will accept that and extrapolate the
result as best as I can.

Thankyou for you help on this project. McIsencraft

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Clarification of Question by mcisencraft-ga on 15 May 2004 14:56 PDT

GOOD JOB! YES POST THIS ANSWER YOU DID AND I WILL PAY. I HAD NO IDEA A
ARROW COULD BE SHOT OVER 1000 YARDS!

JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY DOES BOBBIE7 OR OMNIVORE GET THE CREDIT? THANKYOU. M.

Hello again Mcisencraft,

I?m glad that my research was useful!

Here is my estimate of what a human can propel the most distance based
on my research.


1. Bow and Arrow
2. Golf
3. Baseball
4. Slingshot


I based my estimate on the following numbers:


Bow and Arrow: 1410.87 meters =   1,542.95 Yards
Golf :         515 Yards      =     515    Yards
Baseball:      734 feet       =     244.67 Yards
Slingshot:     100 Yards      =     100 Yards

Sources:

====
GOLF
====

?The average driving distance on the pro tour has risen from 256.8
yards in 1980 to 269.3 yards in 1998, and Mr. Pate says he's seen 12-
and 13-year-olds hit the ball more than 240 yards.?

?Credited with once driving a golf ball 511 yards, Mr. Zuback also
does about 50 special appearances a year, in which the the 5-ft.,
10-in., 225-lb. former pharmacist blasts shots through yellow pages
and clears 275 yards with his putter?
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/04/05/p1s3.htm


?AccuFLEX-shafted driver on the PGA Nationwide Tour in 2003 to set the
record for longest driving distance average ever on any PGA Tour at an
astonishing 339.3 yards.?

Golftransactions.com
http://www.golftransactions.com/wirereleases/2003_12_1_AccuFLEX_Golf_Announces_That.php


?Mike Austin personally used to hit the longest drive in competition.
Both the PGA of America and the Guinness Book of Records recognize
Mike's 515 yard drive at the U.S. National Senior Open as the "longest
drive, regulation course" and ?longest drive, competition?
respectively.?

Peace River Golf
http://peacerivergolf.com/


========
Baseball
========

?Shortly after, Niehaus gave the estimated distance: "538
feet--unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. The longest home run ever
hit here in Seattle ... the longest home run I think I have ever seen
hit." Not only that, it seems to be the longest ball hit since 1988,
when the distance of major-league home runs was first estimated on a
wide scale. Sports pages and broadcasters across the country are still
heralding McGwire's homer as one of the great feats in slugging
history.?

MSN
http://slate.msn.com/id/2095/#ContinueArticle

?734 feet (5/22/63, Yankee Stadium Façade* ? Pitcher: Bill Fischer,
Kansas City Athletics ? Left-handed)?
http://www.themick.com/10homers.html#Home%20Run%20#1
top 10 home runs
http://web.archive.org/web/19980114163116/http://www.mci.com/connections/enjoy/sponsorship/baseball/homerun.shtml

"Mantle's shot cleared a 55-foot-high wall in left field and was found
in a yard outside Washington's Griffith Stadium.

That blast gave birth to the term "tape-measure home run" because a
Yankees public relations guy named Arthur "Red" Patterson found the
kid who retrieved the ball, determined where he found it and measured
it off at 565 feet.?

Azcentral.com
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/columns/articles/0428p2main0428.html


=============
Bow and arrow
=============


Flight archery is all about shooting an arrow the longest distance

Flight Archery Men world records

Compound Flight Bow
1207.39m
31 JUL 92
STROTHER, Kevin

Foot Bow
1410.87m 
6 OCT 79
DRAKE, Harry

Archery.org
http://www.archery.org/world_records/flight_records/flight_men.html


=========
Slingshot
=========

?The David Slings have the added benefit of being able to launch much
larger projectiles. Some of these Slings, with practice, can hurl a
stone almost as large as an adult?s fist over 100 yards with a great
degree of accuracy. They have been used in Combat in ancient times, as
well as by Palestinian and Irish Terrorists with success.?

DonRearic.com 
http://www.donrearic.com/slingshots.html


Search criteria:
"average driving distance" "* yards"
"longest driving distance" "* yards"
"longest home run" "* feet"
" flight archery" longest shot "* yards"
" flight archery" longest distance
flight archery  record
"slingshot shooting" distance feet OR yards OR feet


Best regards,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 15 May 2004 16:04 PDT

Dear Mcisencraft,

Yes, Omnivorous  and myself and perhaps other researchers were working
on your question; however researchers work on an individual basis.

The offical answer to your question is the result of my research.

If another researcher has something to add to my answer, they will
post it in the comments box.

Should you need further asistance, please ask.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Good work on this! Just curious, did both bobbie7 and omnivorous work
on this? I dont know what omnivorous meant by "toss it off a mountain
side"? Anyway I got may answer and Google seems to be working, Thanks
McIsencraft

Hello again mcisencraft,

Here is my estimate of what a human can propel the most distance based
on my research.


1. Bow and Arrow
2. Golf
3. Baseball
4. Slingshot


I based my estimate on the following numbers:


Bow and Arrow: 1410.87 meters =   1,542.95 Yards
Golf :         515 Yards      =     515    Yards
Baseball:      734 feet       =     244.67 Yards
Slingshot:     100 Yards      =     100 Yards

Sources:

====
GOLF
====

?The average driving distance on the pro tour has risen from 256.8
yards in 1980 to 269.3 yards in 1998, and Mr. Pate says he's seen 12-
and 13-year-olds hit the ball more than 240 yards.?

?Credited with once driving a golf ball 511 yards, Mr. Zuback also
does about 50 special appearances a year, in which the the 5-ft.,
10-in., 225-lb. former pharmacist blasts shots through yellow pages
and clears 275 yards with his putter?
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/04/05/p1s3.htm


?AccuFLEX-shafted driver on the PGA Nationwide Tour in 2003 to set the
record for longest driving distance average ever on any PGA Tour at an
astonishing 339.3 yards.?

Golftransactions.com
http://www.golftransactions.com/wirereleases/2003_12_1_AccuFLEX_Golf_Announces_That.php


?Mike Austin personally used to hit the longest drive in competition.
Both the PGA of America and the Guinness Book of Records recognize
Mike's 515 yard drive at the U.S. National Senior Open as the "longest
drive, regulation course" and ?longest drive, competition?
respectively.?

Peace River Golf
http://peacerivergolf.com/


========
Baseball
========

?Shortly after, Niehaus gave the estimated distance: "538
feet--unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. The longest home run ever
hit here in Seattle ... the longest home run I think I have ever seen
hit." Not only that, it seems to be the longest ball hit since 1988,
when the distance of major-league home runs was first estimated on a
wide scale. Sports pages and broadcasters across the country are still
heralding McGwire's homer as one of the great feats in slugging
history.?

MSN
http://slate.msn.com/id/2095/#ContinueArticle

?734 feet (5/22/63, Yankee Stadium Façade* ? Pitcher: Bill Fischer,
Kansas City Athletics ? Left-handed)?
http://www.themick.com/10homers.html#Home%20Run%20#1
top 10 home runs
http://web.archive.org/web/19980114163116/http://www.mci.com/connections/enjoy/sponsorship/baseball/homerun.shtml

"Mantle's shot cleared a 55-foot-high wall in left field and was found
in a yard outside Washington's Griffith Stadium.

That blast gave birth to the term "tape-measure home run" because a
Yankees public relations guy named Arthur "Red" Patterson found the
kid who retrieved the ball, determined where he found it and measured
it off at 565 feet.?

Azcentral.com
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/columns/articles/0428p2main0428.html


=============
Bow and arrow
=============


Flight archery is all about shooting an arrow the longest distance

Flight Archery Men world records

Compound Flight Bow
1207.39m
31 JUL 92
STROTHER, Kevin

Foot Bow
1410.87m 
6 OCT 79
DRAKE, Harry

Archery.org
http://www.archery.org/world_records/flight_records/flight_men.html


=========
Slingshot
=========

?The David Slings have the added benefit of being able to launch much
larger projectiles. Some of these Slings, with practice, can hurl a
stone almost as large as an adult?s fist over 100 yards with a great
degree of accuracy. They have been used in Combat in ancient times, as
well as by Palestinian and Irish Terrorists with success.?

DonRearic.com 
http://www.donrearic.com/slingshots.html


If my findings meet your needs please let me know and I will gladly
post it as the official answer to your question.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Bobbie -- 

That sure looks like the answer to me.

For some impact of altitude, heat, humidity and other factors on
baseballs the following Google search strategy is relevant:
"the physics of baseball"

Robert Kemp Adair's book by that title is excellent and detailed but
there are several professors' web pages that do the subject justice.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

I think I'd argue for the order: arrow, golf ball, sling, baseball. 
In every projectile but the sling, omni's answer considers a distance
record, achieved by a top athlete.  240 yards is a phenomenal distance
to hit a baseball.  Most people could not hit a baseball 100 yards. 
But I believe with practice most people could throw a rock (perhaps
not one as large a baseball) over 100 yards with a sling.  And I
wouldn't be surprised if a world-class athlete could throw a rock 300
yards or more that way.  But the distance record for a sling doesn't
seem to be easy to find.

which  To me, the answer submitted evades the question, which is: What
is the longest distance a human can propel an object? All the examples
quoted involve a mechanical contrivance. One might as well say pushing
a launch button on an ICBM is the record. How about this? What is the
longest distance a human can throw any object manually without any
help from an appliance?

A few points:
(there are no online references to this as far as I know):
The World Record for distance with a sling, according to the Guinness
Book of Records 1999, is held by David P. Engvall, who has propelled a
60 gram lead projectile 477 meters. For actual stone ammo, there are
reports of Tibetan native slingers reaching 300-yard distances, 
quoted in the book 'Hunting weapons' by H.L. Blackmore. Clearly the
100 yard estimate is way too low, and the sling is the
second-farthest-propelling insrument in the list.

http://www.usarchery.org/results%20&%20records/records/World%20Regular%20Flight%20Records.pdf

The world Flight Shooting record for a hand held bow and arrow is
1222.01 meters, shot by Don Brown using a 132 lbs. Harry Drake flight
bow, in 1987. The Foot bow record is 1854.40 m, held by Harry Drake
(1971), and the greatest distance ever shot with any type of
hand-operated bow and arrow is 1871.84 m, by Harry Drake using a
hand-cocked crossbow (1988). Only the first of these is the classic
bow and arrow, but all of them have been made by human muscle.

Oh, and Monroe-Ga:

The greatest distance anything has been thrown without any help from
an appliance is 385 meters, by the aforementioned David Engvall (also
in the Guinness Book of Records 1999). The 'thing' was a lead weight
that had a long string attached to it.

Or is it this: 

http://www.baggressive.com/ld/content/stories.php?item=4
Manuel Schuetz has thrown a boomerang (and catched it) a distance of
238 meters, measured as a straight line from the thrower to the
farthest point in the flight path of the boomerang. Since the flight
path of a returning boomerang is roughly circular, the actual distance
traveled by the implement must be around 700 meters?

Have to disagree with you about the distance record, tuukka.  An
aerobie has been thrown 1333 ft (406 meters).

http://aerobie.com/Products/Details/ProSprintFAQs.htm