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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Admittedly the image quality is "this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented", but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It's depicted as falling out of a tree.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers "hang" in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But did they do that in Newton's time?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.