BECOME A SLINGER TO TOPPLE THE BIG PHARMA GOLIATH

David slayed Goliath with a 34 meters-per-second stone—get yours here

BECOME A DAVID OR DAVINA

Goliath was a giant, covered from head to toe in armour, tooled up to the hilt.

David was diddy (little, for our non-UK friends). He was a lowly shepherd, without a scrap of armour, and only a sling and stone to defend himself.

How on earth did David slay Goliath? Such an apparent total mis-match…

…or so it seemed—but looks can be deceiving.

The quote below from Malcolm Gladwell's excellent book, David and Goliath, explains:

"Goliath had as much chance against David, (the historian Robert Dohrenwend writes), "as any Bronze Age warrior with a sword would have had against an [opponent] armed with a .45 automatic pistol"

David was in fact a highly-skilled slinger. In his experienced hands, and quoting from the same book, we learn:

“Eitan Hirsch, a ballistics expert with the Israeli Defense Forces, recently did a series of calculations showing that a typical-size stone hurled by an expert slinger at a distance of 35-meters would have hit Goliath’s head with a velocity of …