If you perfectly relax all the muscles in your tongue and throat, and gently take hold of it with a pair of sugar tongs, it is possible to pull it out from the mouth a distance of six inches or more. However, if you do this you will not be able to fit it back in again without surgical intervention.
When a snooker ball is in the center of the table and the cue ball near one corner, the task of potting the ball into the opposite corner is measureably influenced by the gravitational fields of the players.