[meteorite-list] Screwball

From: S. Singletary <jumper_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:39 2004
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030616112959.00bca580_at_hesiod>

At 09:12 PM 6/16/2003 -0600, David Freeman wrote:
>If one imagines any number of objects that go air borne at flight speed;
>either motorbikes, NASCARS, fighter jets, skydivers

Actually, for skydivers - if you relax and have proper arch, you can be at
terminal velocity and remain on heading, falling straight down as if in a
tube. I did a bunch of this yesterday :)

Steven




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Received on Mon 16 Jun 2003 11:31:31 AM PDT