Assertion: boomerang | /r/CapableOf | return to the thrower
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text: When you throw it, it will spin and return to the thrower.
text: Although we usually think of its use as a throwing stick that returns to the thrower, there are boomerangs that are made not to return.
text: For instance, they discovered that if thrown in a particular manner, the boomerang curved in flight, did some neat spins in the air and returned to the thrower.
text: And then, the boomerang returns to the thrower.
text: For example, there is a commonly held impression that a boomerang can be thrown to conk an enemy on the head and then return to the thrower to be caught.
text: When it returns to the thrower, it is caught safely at chest height, trapping it between open hands in a sandwich fashion.
text: When it returns to the thrower, it is caught safely at chest height, trapping it between open hands in a sandwich fashion.
text: When the boomerang returns to the thrower, it will change (as it spins) to horizontal.
text: It is the spinning action that causes the boomerang to return to the thrower.
text: Thus gyroscopic precession is what makes the boomerang return to the thrower when thrown correctly.
text: Thus gyroscopic precession is what makes the boomerang return to the thrower when thrown correctly.
text: When properly launched, the boomerang returns to the thrower.
text: Although we usually think of its use as a throwing stick that returns to the thrower, there are boomerangs that are made not to return.