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To: Westlander

So how long does it take the watermelon to hit the ground?


3 posted on 04/14/2006 5:38:28 AM PDT by craig61a
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To: craig61a

That is the joke... it doesn't!


4 posted on 04/14/2006 5:40:29 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
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To: craig61a
So how long does it take the watermelon to hit the ground?

About 4.2 seconds. It'll be travelling at about 115 ft/sec (about 78 mph), if we don't count drag.

11 posted on 04/14/2006 6:23:04 AM PDT by r9etb
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Ooops -- my bad. It's closer to 5 seconds (I mistakenly used 200 feet instead of 300 feet as the initial height.)


12 posted on 04/14/2006 6:25:11 AM PDT by r9etb
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