This solution seems like it has the man 'orbit' the lion, the same way that a planet travels perpendicular to the sun. The lions strategy is also running in a s

This solution seems like it has the man 'orbit' the lion, the same way that a planet travels perpendicular to the sun. The lions strategy is also running in a straight line to where the man is going to be, similar to how the sun accelerates to where the planet is. There are a few obvious differences. The first being, in orbits, we (intuitively) use a time interval of 0. More importantly, in orbits, the sun is accelerating to the planets current position, not moving towards it. Formally speaking, I cannot see the connection between the stragety presented in the article and orbits, but intuitivly I feel like there is one.