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You’re preparing an exhibit for the Golf Hall of Fame, and you realize that the longest golf shot in history was Astronaut Alan Shepard’s lunar drive. Shepard, swinging single-handed with a golf club attached to a lunar sample scoop, claimed his ball went “miles and miles.” The record for a single-handed golf shot on Earth is 257 m. Could Shepard’s ball really have gone “miles and miles”? Assume the ball’s initial speed is independent of gravitational acceleration.
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