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ELI5: When looking up the biggest fish caught on rod and reel, you get fish in the thousands-of-pounds range. By my understanding of physics, when a heavy animal and a much lighter animal pull on each other, the heavier animal should win, so how is this possible?

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Eli5 why we always constructed observatory under a moutain or deep underneath the ground.. For example the newly The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector is a physics experiment the size of a 15-story building, buried under a mountain in Japan

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