Nicholas, When skydiving you can in fact reach a vertical velocity of about 153 mph maximum if you use a technique called tracking. This involves streamlining yourself into a head down pencil shape with arms at the side.
However, your horizontal component will be considerably more than this - as I discovered to my cost many years ago as I headed out over open water at a vast rate of knots and struggled to get back over terra firma! Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Geti Sent: 30 August 2007 16:49 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: {OT] Another rat flees the sinking ship It is stupid but the bullets do not come down with the same force that they go up due to air resistance. The Mythbusters show demonstrated this with pennies dropped from a high building. No matter how high the building, the pennies always landed with the same speed and force. The force was not enough to cause any damage other than a little pain if they hit their heads. The principle is called "terminal velocity". People jumping out of airplanes reach about 100 mph and never fall any faster as the height is increased. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:30 PM Subject: {OT] Another rat flees the sinking ship > Have you noticed how some of the crazies in the middle east run around > with their faces covered like cowards and love shooting their guns in the > air. Why don't you fuss about that, because sooner or later those bullets > come down. Stupid!!!!! > > Larry Miller > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
