Skydiving

[Doramius]

When skydiving with your friends and you find your chute doesn't open, a really cool gag would be to act like you're swimming. - Jack Handy

[Heywould3]

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/JianHuang.shtml (a bit of reading there)

i wanna reach terminal velocity.. that would be unreal.. the myth is 714mph but it seems that its 614.. at that speed anything you hit bigger than the size of a piece of dust would blow you up

P.S. btw i always thought TV was 120 for everything.. remember the kids jokes about that.. the bowling ball and the marble off a building.. anyway.. it seems there is no limit until you encounter resistance.. thats cool.. i learned something new today..

yeahhhh happy dance.

[Doramius]

It depends where you are for terminal velocity. The 714MPH was at the edge of space with thin air and less friction. Why do you think things burn up in our atmosphere? If it hit terminal veliocity beforehand, it would be slow enough to impact the earth. This is why the Penny myth may have potential possibilities. Though I still think it's a myth.

[Heywould3]

It depends where you are for terminal velocity. The 714MPH was at the edge of space with thin air and less friction. Why do you think things burn up in our atmosphere? If it hit terminal veliocity beforehand, it would be slow enough to impact the earth. This is why the Penny myth may have potential possibilities. Though I still think it's a myth.

Yeah i understand all that.. BUT referring to something entering the atmosphere and burning up is not an apples to apples comparison. those things have gained speed from many different things.. and the speed you reach from falling is only from earths gravity. so there is a point where your speed will max out due to wind resistance and earths gravitational pull.. i know the closer you get to earth the denser the air gets hence more resistance.. but i was just speaking of what TV was for earth.. it would be different for the moon and different still for Saturn.. if the air density were the same on all 3 would TV be the same? doenst seem logical to me.. anyway interesting concept.. but dont want to hijack another thread today.

[northcat_8]

In order to burn up the coefficient of friction would have to be high enough to create enough heat to ignite..the clothing..in this case. I would imagine that in order for AIR to have that high of a coefficient of friction air would have to be passing over a body at an extreme rate of speed, which I would have to guess would have to be much much greater than 714 mph (1047.2 ft/s).

I would be more suspicious of the 714 mph based simply on wind resistance.

[Capmaster]

Depends on the aerodynamics. Our ICBM reentry bodies come screaming in at Mach 3+

So if someone had a pointy head ....

[northcat_8]

Depends on the aerodynamics. Our ICBM reentry bodies come screaming in at Mach 3+

So if someone had a pointy head ....

Exactly what I'm saying. I would think it would require a special suit, with something taking the wind resistance off the head and shoulders. Clothing would have to be skin tight (I assume this was worn anyway).

You would have to be dressed as a bullet.

[Doramius]

I doubt the feat was done while the guy was spread eagle. If I wanted to increase speed, I'd head down and straight like a pencil allowing as little friction as possible. Now you're litterally just falling with gravity, and assuming an average person doing this weighs around 180lbs. (respectively), 1G can pull a person quite fast. In order for air to create enough friction on any object, they have to be going several times the speed of sound.

I think we should all email Mythbusters on the Discovery channel and have them test this. I have the email addresses for the 2 main guys, Adam & Jaime.

[northcat_8]

Doramius...Gravity is constant...every object will fall at the same rate, mass has no bearing. Velocity differences are in wind resistance or more technically spoken, in displacement.

[Dr. DOS]

I don't believe I could inflate my balls large enough to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

[Doramius]

Doramius...Gravity is constant...every object will fall at the same rate, mass has no bearing. Velocity differences are in wind resistance or more technically spoken, in displacement.

They only fall at the same rate without friction of any kind, including air. If you start falling at a certain rate with the pull of gravity, before you hit the higher friction, you will enter the lower atmosphere faster, but I seriously doubt the lower atmosphere resistance of air is enough to slow you down once you enter it from thinner air. So you could essentially reach 714MPH on the edge of space falling towards earth, but from a traditional drop height, I doubt you're going to reach that speed being that you're already starting at a higher resistance. Or at least that how I'm trying to logically put it together. Makes sense on paper at least.

[ZAPPER]

Years ago, their was doctor that claimed he could cure studdering. His method was somewhat unorthodox but had a high success rate. He would take his patients skydiving. So one guy that studders, says that he is game and goes for the treatment. The doc says just jump when you are ready and count to three and pop the chute. So the guy works up the nerve and jumps and then starts to count. Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-one.....

Don't give me any greif I heard it from a painter that studdered. He was a funny dude and used his habbit to his advantage. He never had to make the coffee or lunch run because he told everyone that he would screw up the order. I seen him get out of a few ass chewings by useing the poor retard act too. He had gotton some paint spatter on a countertop and the owner started to give him some shit about it, so he goes into the big time studdering act and the owner just walks away feeling like he just attacked a retard. One time I was in a room with him and he didn't realize that I was working on a closet lock or something kind of out of veiw. That dude had on a walkman and was singing right along with the music with out a studder. We got along pretty good for a couple of years but then one day I had a bunch of shit going on and the pressure was building. He came up to me while I was trying to put out a hundred other little fires and says "Hey Sca-Sca-Sca-Scott" and me being the ******* that I can be said "Hey wh-wh-wh-what! " I saw in his eyes that I had hurt him and I felt like shit. I tried to apologize but the damage was done. I don't think that he ever respected me after that.

BTW terminal velocity when you are skydiving is about 120MPH when you are prone and about 135MPH head down. Weather and temp will make minor changes as will your clothing. I belive that even if you started in space by the time you got to the ground the thicker air will have slowed you down to the TV of that air and you. I don't think that you can cheat it. Something about the laws of physics, they enforce themselves.

[sacajaweeda]

They'd have to THROW me out of a plane. So what if it's gonna crash anyways and there's a million parachutes. I'm ridin' that shit the **** out.

[ZAPPER]

I was talking to a guy that happened to mention that last week was when he was supposed to jump for the first time in the military. He said that he was so scared that the jumpmaster put him at the end of the line so that he could see everyone else do it first. So everybody jumps and he stops at the door and tells the jumpmaster that he can't do it. The jumpmaster unzipped his pants and pulled out the biggest organ the guy had ever seen. The jumpmaster said that if he don't jump that he will shove this right up his ass. So I asked if he jumped. The guy said "Yes, a little at first"

[Capmaster]

They'd have to THROW me out of a plane. So what if it's gonna crash anyways and there's a million parachutes. I'm ridin' that shit the **** out.

If I knew the plane was going to crash, I wouldn't have the option of jumping out because I wouldn't be able to pry the seat out of my ass

[sacajaweeda]

Hopefully it's an ejection seat then, hey?

[sacajaweeda]

But then again....

[Capmaster]

Ejection seat

I wouldn't want to get split like a watermelon. Crashing would be more dignified :P

[Doramius]

What happens if you need to eject from a helecopter?