EPTColorado boy floats away in Balloon - Page 6
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Hungary3932 Posts
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jiabung
United States720 Posts
On October 16 2009 05:05 mOnion wrote: uh, wtf? gravity accelerates you at 10 m/s. which is 3x faster than you're suggesting. do you guys not understand acceleration?... it sounds as if you think acceleration is the same terminal velocity.. No one would survive a fall of 8000 feet... that's like saying people jumping off the Empire State Building all should live since i don't think its even a quarter of a mile high. The terminal velocity of a falling 6 year old boy would not be 3.5 ft/s. I think it would be something closer to 100 mph. Acceleration is in units of meters per a second SQUARED, which means that for every second you would be moving 9.8 meters faster than before from gravity. | ||
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RebirthOfLeGenD
USA5860 Posts
I think 3:01 is one of the most hilarious cases of foreshadowing I have ever seen. | ||
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Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
On October 16 2009 05:27 jiabung wrote: People have survived falls from higher than that before. Doesn't mean that everyone will survive though (on the contrary, it's a freak accident).No one would survive a fall of 8000 feet... that's like saying people jumping off the Empire State Building all should live. | ||
Flicky
England2655 Posts
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Thratur
Canada917 Posts
It's not proportional, but there is still a correlation between acceleration and terminal velocity. | ||
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kekekekyle
Canada32 Posts
Vt = (2*21*9.81 / 1.225*0.8*1.2)^(1/2) Vt = 18.7m/s assumptions: mass of child = 21kg cross sectional area of falling child = 0.8m^2 (used avg. height) drag coefficient of falling child = 1.2 edit: the drag coefficient comes from a skydiver's, it would actually be smaller for a 6 year old | ||
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jiabung
United States720 Posts
On October 16 2009 05:31 Tsagacity wrote: People have survived falls from higher than that before. Doesn't mean that everyone will survive though (on the contrary, it's a freak accident). The only people that would survive are ones that landed in snow or a bush, or had something like tree branches or flag poles slowing them down before they hit the ground. Otherwise, there is no way not to die on impact with the ground if you're moving at something like 100mph. | ||
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Xstatic
United States765 Posts
No matter how much you calculate, it all depends on the time and condition in which they find him. If he fell and it takes too long to get medical attention, it's GG. If he was never up there, then he's all right, except from whipping from parents :D | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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FusionCutter
Canada974 Posts
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html Or he fell out of it. | ||
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jiabung
United States720 Posts
On October 16 2009 05:40 Xstatic wrote: I love how this turned from a discussion about the kid's safety and stupidity to mathematical proofs of his ability to survive. No matter how much you calculate, it all depends on the time and condition in which they find him. If he fell and it takes too long to get medical attention, it's GG. If he was never up there, then he's all right, except from whipping from parents :D If he did indeed fall from the balloon, he would be dead. It wouldn't even matter if paramedics were already at the scene. In fact, If he fell on a paramedic from the sky, both the paramedic and the kid would probably die. And since the kid was found not to be in the balloon, it kind of warrants discussion if he could have survived the fall or not. Which he could not have... unless he fell on an inclined mountain of snow... while hitting a bunch of tree branches along the way. | ||
CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11568 Posts
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Hungary3932 Posts
On October 16 2009 05:51 CaucasianAsian wrote: Does anyone else see a resemblence between this and the movie 12 monkeys? With the 'kid who fell down the well' was just a prank and he was hiding in the barn? This is a scenario that has happened many times. Child pranks sometimes get big like this, I recall a few occasions. (reference to a great movie nonetheless:-p) | ||
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fAnTaCy
United States893 Posts
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
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ProoM
Lithuania1741 Posts
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Hungary3932 Posts
On October 16 2009 06:05 ProoM wrote: the balloon looks like Alien ship. Yes, I noticed that too, I'm sure experimenting families like this are source to many many ufo sightings  | ||
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Monstah-_-
249 Posts
On October 16 2009 04:09 Amber[LighT] wrote: just read this somewhere else lol. Same, feel sorry for the kid but if he is at least 6 he would have known to get off the exact second. | ||
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Thratur
Canada917 Posts
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