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    Throwing a ball sideways vs. dropping it

    So here's my physics conundrum: I am on a ROUND Earth, in a vacuum. If I throw a ball really fast (say 99.9% of the orbital velocity for the ball's altitude), and drop another ball straight down, which takes longer to hit the ground? My basic physics reasoning would say that it takes the same...
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