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To: jaydubya2

When he breaks the sound barrier. Every organ in his body will explode.


5 posted on 02/07/2012 11:15:58 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

It would be very surprising if this idiot were to survive...


8 posted on 02/07/2012 11:18:49 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: massgopguy
When he breaks the sound barrier. Every organ in his body will explode.

He won't reach that speed.

Based on wind resistance, the terminal velocity of a skydiver in a belly-to-earth (ie:face down) free-fall position is about 122 mph.
This velocity is the limiting value of the acceleration process because the effective forces on the body balance each other more and more closely as the terminal velocity is approached.

In this example, a speed of 50% of terminal velocity is reached after only about 3 seconds, while it takes 8 seconds to reach 90%, 15 seconds to reach 99% and so on.
Higher speeds can be attained if the skydiver pulls in his or her limbs. In this case, the terminal velocity increases to about 200 mph which is almost the terminal velocity of the Peregrine Falcon diving down on its prey.
The same terminal velocity is reached for a typical .30-06 bullet dropping downwards—when it is returning to earth having been fired upwards or dropped from a tower—according to a 1920 U.S. Army Ordnance study.

Competition speed skydivers fly in the head down position and reach even higher speeds. The current world record is 614 mph by Joseph Kittinger, set at high altitude where the lesser density of the atmosphere decreased drag.

So this guy hopes to break the current world record by 76 mph? The physics don't support it.

And if he does, as you say, he's dead meat.

39 posted on 02/07/2012 12:16:33 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
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