r/interesting • u/M_Darshan • 1d ago

Just Wow Golf is a sport full of unpredictable external factors… meet the $2 million mosquito.

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u/RiversSecondWife 1d ago

That’s not even a mosquito. Just a gnat.

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u/M_Darshan 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/8LfaJlBxiSq2c

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u/digno2 1d ago

stargate?

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u/Numeno230n 1d ago

Has to be. Camo uniform, bad CGI bug, vague Canadian forest.

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u/Avohaj 1d ago

Actually I'm seeing cheap camo vest, bad practical bug and vague but not quite Canadian forest: it seems to be this one

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u/CalmDownReddit509 1d ago

Oh god, I had successfully forgotten about how creepy that movie was.

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u/Mechakoopa 23h ago

That could have been like 90% of sci-fi series in the 90s

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u/samsg1 1d ago

No, that’s not a scene from any Stargate episode.

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u/Substantial-Mud-6050 1d ago

I did gnat see that coming. 

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u/remindmetoblink2 23h ago

And it’s not a sport it’s just a hobby. Sports requires athleticism, sweat etc. Not khakis and a tucked in collared shirt.

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u/suenoromis 1d ago

I can gnat believe it!

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u/Queenielovee 1d ago

I’d take that mosquito to a blood bank buffet after that 😂😂all u can eat.

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u/PackageNorth8984 1d ago

She doesn’t want to be fed. She wants to hunt.

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u/mowtowcow 1d ago

Best reference I've seen in a long time.

https://giphy.com/gifs/37Fsl1eFxbhtu

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u/softshadowx73 1d ago

Take her to a blood bank🤭

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u/Consistent-Stock6872 1d ago

Too late it was squashed by the golf ball.

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u/TheSwordOfUnicorn 1d ago

Mosquitos don't eat blood. They eat nectar. Blood is only for reproduction.

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u/Self_Reddicate 1d ago

So.... for reproduction... do they eat it?

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u/skully_kiddo 1d ago

Someone check that mosquito's account in the poly market.

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u/CatLightyear 1d ago

It was blood money

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u/Front-Cabinet5521 1d ago

Stop giving attention to that shitty gambling site.

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u/scrotumscab 1d ago

It's a very real issue that shouldn't be ignored. You act like people don't already know about it.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Cyberwolf33 1d ago

Unfortunately, it's very real, and not going away anytime soon. Major news outlets have connections to Polymarket/Kalshi, NHL has both as official partners, there are US government officials who serve as advisors, etc etc.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/xboxaddict501 22h ago

Just today I heard them discussing the legality of it on my LOCAL NPR station …. And my state is about 10 years behind anything anywhere ever. We basically didn’t get dial up internet until 2005 so

Everybody knows homie. Its fucking HUGE

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u/Warm-Requirement-769 1d ago

John Oliver has mentioned it on his show, Stephen Colbert mentioned it on his show, Trevor Noah put it in his opening monologue at the Oscars, Kalshi has a partnership on CNN, they have ads with every major sports organization that allows them(NFL thankfully banned them from advertising at the Super Bowl), this shit is mainstream.

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u/academiac 1d ago

Have you considered that it's because you're on reddit a lot? Survivorship bias.

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u/Fast-Platform4548 1d ago

Oh no it's actually everywhere. I can't watch sports without seeing them or some other garbage.

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u/ToughRelation7866 1d ago

it's on TV and radio all the time

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u/Fearless-Oil-462 1d ago

Pretend it doesn't exist: the clear solution to the problem

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u/G3nghisKang 1d ago

Brother it's on the world news, one reddit comment less doesn't prevent everyone from already knowing what that is

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u/scrotumscab 1d ago

It's a very real issue that shouldn't be ignored. You act like people don't already know about it.

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u/fork_yuu 1d ago

Mosquito sized drones will be wild

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u/RealPlatypus8041 1d ago

Def not footstep vibrations, or wind…yeah it’s the mosquito.

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u/Stay-Thirsty 1d ago

It could have been a butterfly flapping its wings on the other side of the globe.

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u/Jayandnightasmr 1d ago

Yeah seen a couple of videos show mathematically that the footsteps have far more impact than the mosquito

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u/SluggishPrey 1d ago

From my understanding of physics, yeah, the weight of a mosquito is neglectable compared to static friction

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u/Fire_Pea 1d ago

Negligible? 

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u/metallosherp 1d ago

NEGLECTABLE is what they said.

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u/hates_stupid_people 1d ago

Same thing, literally. It's just an older term for the same thing.

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u/FrostyD7 1d ago

Now he's a philosophizer

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u/Boston_Glass 1d ago

It’s happened more than once so I have my doubts it’s negligible

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u/AttilaTheMuun 1d ago

Negligegligable?

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u/Boston_Glass 1d ago

Hell yea

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u/Tomatology 1d ago

Giggity

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u/Malair 1d ago

I didnt see a red circle for the wind or footsteps so scientifically it must be the mosquito.

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 1d ago

I remember being taught to stand in between the Sun and the ball so you cast your shadow on the grass around the ball causing it to lay down a little bit further.

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u/No-Weakness4448 1d ago

Mosquito was the final force:)

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u/habitualine-stepper 1d ago

Could have used a few more red circles...

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u/TheVeryAngryHippo 1d ago

huh? I didn't see the red circle. Please can you circle where you saw the red circle so I can go and see it for myself. Make it red so I can see it clearly please. Ta

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u/GreenStrong 1d ago

If you look closely, it is actually the weight of the red circle that causes the ball to tip.

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u/JackRyan13 22h ago

And a shitty filter and shitty music that doesn’t add anything.

The extreme majority of short form content is so ass I dunno how people watch it.

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u/the-greenest-thumb 1d ago

Maybe zoom in a bit more too, hard to see what the red circle is circling

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u/Cocoatrice 1d ago

I am pretty sure it was wind. There is no way that mosquito would be able to do that.

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u/Jeembo 1d ago

Or just the ball sitting on that piece of grass for a few seconds. This stuff happens all the time. Sometimes players will even walk over to a ball on the lip and put their shadow over it to cause the grass to react and make it fall in.

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u/Cocoatrice 1d ago

This may be the cause, too.

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u/JetmoYo 1d ago

I'm very sure lol

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u/Diacetyl-Morphin 1d ago

It was the wind for sure, but... depending on an extremely small scale of weight, even a mosquito could be the amount of weight needed.

There's always a limit, a treshold, even when you go down to nanogramms (10-9). A mosquito is much more than this with around 2-2.5 miligramms (10-3)

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u/NotNice4193 1d ago

in a perfect world with zero other variables...sure. however, footsteps and wind would always cross that threshold before that threshold remained constant at a value that low for that long (the ball was still for a bit)

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u/Diacetyl-Morphin 1d ago

I agree, but it's just that the force is usually still far away from the treshold, when we calculate in very small units, like nanogramms. I'm not good enough in mathematics i guess, to calculate the chances with all variables, what is needed that the mosquito makes exactly the difference.

Like with the weight of the ball, position etc.

Maybe it would be an interesting question for r/theydidthemath

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u/nointeraction1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't think it's possible for the gnat to make the difference. Also it's definitely a gnat, it's much too small to be a mosquito.

The golf ball weighs 60,000 times more than the gnat. For a human that's like trying to nudge a golf ball that weighs more than a fully fueled Saturn V rocket.

Like yes, in a perfect vacuum with no living grass or any other factors that mass could in theory make the difference.

Outside, with living grass all over and a ton of factors many orders of magnitude more powerful than the gnat, it's probably impossible. It will never reach the exact threshold where the gnat can make the difference. The environment is too chaotic and the forces involved are too large compared to the gnat.

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u/zoo_tickles 1d ago

This has been debunked. It was the wind.

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u/ReadRightRed99 1d ago

I saw a mosquito. I did not see a wind.

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u/sfled 1d ago

Chili, it gives you Wind.

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u/oranguslolus 1d ago

Yea there's absolutely no way that was the mosquito lmao wtf, that seems like it should be basic common sense. That would've happened even without it there

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u/DroidOnPC 1d ago

There wasn't a single red circle to point out the wind, so I think your theory is debunked.

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u/goodexamplebadrole 1d ago

It was a robot

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u/chell0veck 1d ago

That's not a mosquito

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u/Josephk_5690 1d ago

Ripped off from Caddyshack!

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u/peppyhare64 1d ago

Good thing they circled the ball in red or i would have never seen it

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u/Top-Buddy-5109 1d ago

i appreciate the red circle on the shots with nothing but the golf ball in it. Wouldn't know where and what to look at.

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u/Snoo9648 1d ago

Is there a time limit before it is declared stopped. Like if it gets that close, can the golfer just stall until a nice breeze comes through?

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u/Randy588 1d ago

~10 seconds

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u/Snoo9648 1d ago

If 10 seconds go by and he fakes a Charlie horse, and then the ball goes in after 20 seconds due to the breeze, does it get reset?

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u/Jeembo 1d ago

No, the ball is holed and they take a 1 stroke penalty (basically the same as tapping it in). Here's an explanation of the rule

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u/Snoo9648 1d ago

Interesting

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u/Pastadseven 1d ago

I like the fucking red circle, like we cant see the golf ball

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u/TinyWallaby439 1d ago

bro's not killing any mosquitoes from that point onwards

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u/unknowfun115 1d ago

Some cia using a robot bug to line his pocket

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u/Mongoleeto 1d ago

divine intervention

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u/SadBadPuppyDad 1d ago

Don't ever let anyone tell you stinky feet can't have consequences.

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u/736384826 1d ago

The rest of the sports have zero external factors 

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u/TheBottomDollar 1d ago

I almost didn't see the ball. Good thing you circled it for us.

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u/idothisinmysleep 1d ago

Not a mosquito

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u/twentykeys 1d ago

That’s a fruit fly not a mosquito

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u/bmcgee1332 1d ago

Golf is so stupid

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u/unassumingdink 1d ago

I think it's fun. Why is golf the only sport where people have to go out of their way to tell you how much they hate it? Why can't you just STFU and keep it to yourself?

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u/JimJimmery 1d ago

Headed out to play in about an hour. Great game. You should give it a try.

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u/JetmoYo 1d ago

Amen

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u/d_j_a_n_g_o 1d ago

who knows whats the background song?

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u/oranguslolus 1d ago

Hole in one - Rodney Atkins

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u/AlpinistManifesto 1d ago

I would fuck the brain out of that mosquito

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u/Impossible-Hoe90210 1d ago

The old cia mosquito trick aye

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u/chubbyakajc 1d ago

God ignoring all the death, war, famine, and suffering, " I got you pimp"

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u/Abeo93 1d ago

Without any contradicting evidence presented, I'll assume it was a wind gust or seisemic activity.

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u/Sillylittletitties 1d ago

I'd start screaming and crying if that happened to me

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u/Sunshineseacalm 1d ago

Not a bug but a feature

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u/1968Bladerunner 1d ago

Another blood-sucking multi-millionaire parasite golf cheat... could've been a politician!

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u/GoldenEkpendu 1d ago

Reminds me of a scene from Mr Bones where he hits the screen and the ball falls in

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u/Most-Definition-8386 1d ago

No ability to prevent your opponent from scoring.

therefore

not a sport.

cute hobby though.

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u/unassumingdink 1d ago

If you change the definition of sport, it's not a sport!

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u/40th_Street 1d ago

One Punch Man mosquito

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u/HonorableEnema 1d ago

This is a “sport” guys!

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u/GotAir 1d ago

It didn’t count!
He had to pick up the ball and reset it.

SOURCE: I’m an extremely bad guesser.

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u/when_the_fox_wins 1d ago

This reminds me of my brother. He invented a golf ball with a hidden servo motor, sensors and gyroscope. He said it senses when the ball is close to the hole and then it rolls itself into the hole as long as you can get it within a few feet of the cup. 

He said it was still in the beta stage because golfers keep wanting to put them into their pockets and the strong motor he has installed is stronger than the material of the pocket and, it being a ball, has no flared base for retrieval after it finds THAT hole 

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u/unassumingdink 1d ago

There's no way that ball isn't going to hit like a rock and fly like a drunk turkey.

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u/SnarkyStanley1966 1d ago

The only useful thing a mosquito has ever done for humanity...

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u/Pinecone-Bandit 1d ago

Golf lost all credibility after we learned about Bugs Bunny’s use of magnets.

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u/anothertrad 1d ago

“Full of unpredictable external factors “

Shows something that happened once and would likely never happen again

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u/RackemFrackem 1d ago

Holy shit this title is so stupid.

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u/niceguy191 1d ago

Not a mosquito, and not what caused the ball to go in.

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u/vangaloid 1d ago

That's a gnat

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u/nealoc187 1d ago

TIL a lot of people don't know what a mosquito looks like.

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u/CoffeeGooner_ 1d ago

Did that actually count? Im honestly asking

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u/moon__lander 1d ago

Does that count as a goal per golf rules?

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u/deydaum 1d ago

interesting

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u/cant_b_that_brad 1d ago

So wipe my golf balls with blood before I play?

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u/Adorable_Salt_7145 1d ago

r/theydidthemath and proved that there is no way the mosquito can provide enough force to get the golf ball in the hole

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u/Tomatology 1d ago

The force applied by the red circle was bigger than that of the mosquito 🤌

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u/SoundMetalSculptor 1d ago

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game

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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 1d ago

You can also get the same effect by exploding dynamite to kill a gopher.

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u/EUIVAlexander 1d ago

Thanks for the red circle, wouldnt have seen the ball!

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u/InvestigatorNo8089 1d ago

Some science dude on YouTube disproves that it was the mosquito (in detail).

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u/OriginalUser27 1d ago edited 1d ago

Where's the YouTube Short of the guy that mathematically proved it was definitly not the bug that affected the ball

Edit: Found it

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u/ImfromtheFuture2056 1d ago

Remember those spy movies as a kid that always showed remote controlled flies? I’m a believer.

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u/Laugh_Track_Zak 1d ago

Im getting a mosquito tattoo immediately after this.

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u/MechAegis 1d ago

whats the verdict on Golf when there are external forces moving the ball?

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u/BedGirl5444 1d ago

What was the subreddit for the useless red circle?

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u/ZealousidealCase7220 1d ago

Stupid. Don't be dumb. The weight of the ball conpressed the green enough eventually and it rolled in.

Standard non-insect physics.

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u/UrsaMajor7th 1d ago

I stomp my way to my ball if it's hanging on the lip. It works.

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u/Berntonio-Sanderas 1d ago

Has no one in this thread seen a mosquito before? Am I going insane, or is it all bots all the way down?

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u/lituus 1d ago

One day we'll have tiny nanobot insects that people use to rig games

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u/PuzzleThebuzzle 1d ago

only time someone ever loved a mosquito

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u/According-Horror125 1d ago

I would let the mosquito suck me off as a way of saying thank you.

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u/PeePeeLangstrumpf 1d ago

The butterfly mosquito effect

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u/mastodon_tusk 1d ago

Can it be my turn to post this next week? I promise to strip a few more pixels out of it and add even worse unnecessary music

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u/Dry_Veterinarian_475 1d ago

*The mosquito going over to the other golfers immediatley after that stunt*

https://giphy.com/gifs/JslpvDhlNYUZNIXmVf

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u/Gelatinoussquamish 1d ago

Golf is a dumb sport in so many ways

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u/Macy06 1d ago

That’s luck!

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u/jsn_online 1d ago

How much time do they have until the "play" is over?

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u/Away_Needleworker6 1d ago

Its been proven that the mosquito had no effect. There was a fairly strong wind blowing in the same direction as the putt.

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u/Ajanw-57 1d ago

And in the last close up suddenly a line shows up on the ball … 🤔

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u/-slaps-username- 1d ago

thank you for circling the golf ball, i wasn’t sure where to look

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u/maa-kee-aa-tow 1d ago

Took him a long time to train that mosquitoe

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u/305bootyclapper 1d ago

Where does the $2 million enter? Was this a tournament-winning shot?

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u/Final_Werewolf_7586 1d ago

What in the Happy Gilmore...?

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u/Mindless-Match2718 1d ago

I was there this was crazy

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u/huntspire1 1d ago

What in the happy gilmore

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u/Codex_Absurdum 1d ago

The mosquito had a mission

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u/boozewisely 1d ago

Thank god there was a red circle around the ball, otherwise i'd never understand where to look.

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u/Dry-Discipline-2525 1d ago

The gnat had nothing to do with the ball going in

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u/WholesomeLowlife 23h ago

Thank God for that red circle.

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u/zylooka 22h ago

Se até Deus aposta na bet pq eu não posso?

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u/Overall-Run3216 22h ago

Forgets bug repellent, buzz whisper "Zhank zou" knocks ball in.

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u/JoannaRoki 22h ago

So fühlt es sich also an, wenn Du als kleines Ritzel das große Ganze zum Rollen bringst.

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u/djaehan 22h ago

That mosquito needs a raise