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If gravity did not affect the path of a horizontall thrown ball the ball would?
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If air resistance is taken into account, the ball would continue moving in a horizontal direction, slowing as it went and then stop - suspended in mid air.
If there were no air resistance, the ball would continue to move in a straight line for ever. However, the surface of the earth would curve downwards (because it is a sphere) and so, relative to the earth, the ball would fly off at a tangent into space.
Of course, all this begs the question as to why the person who threw the ball did not fly off onto space long before throwing the ball!
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