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To: Responsibility2nd
If a plane at 28,000 feet begins a nose dive at 600 mph, isn’t there still at least 2 minutes of sheer terror and panic before the plane hits the ground?

I calculate about 32 seconds, assuming the rate of descent was constant, but that's still plenty of time if one is conscious. Plus, if it was dark and you could see the ground, the anticipation would be unbearable. The physical pain would be insignificant, but the psychological pain must've been horrible.

38 posted on 12/12/2012 9:32:14 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Lou L; Perdogg

RE: post 37/38

Thanks.


46 posted on 12/12/2012 9:37:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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