Dropping a PEN from a Sky Scraper! (tested in slow motion) 

Impressive

I wonder would happen if you did this with a number two pencil they go through bone Easier than pen bc the graphite micro fracture and makes the pencil glide in

QUICKLY!?

But, a pen would definitely not stay straight unless you added fins and the flipping of the pen would also slow it down, so it would be going much slower, and it's unlikely it would land tip-down so it probably wouldn't be too bad. Especially if it was a really light plastic pen that had a very low terminal velocity.

What

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If I ever see you walk below my office window I’m throwing out my whole pen cup.

Not as much as the pen will.

John Wick proved it in chapter two :D

Thanks brother

Agreed. This was way to effective for my liking lol. The pen cap moving the center of pressure just far enough back to keep it relatively stable was simultaneously cool but very disconcerting seeing as it started being more like a missile then a pen lol

@@ezrarichardson279 Portuguesa

@@ezrarichardson279 what?

@@unknownuser8454 It was to good

I realize this comment is 6 months old but. It's probably a combination of both, cap moves centre of mass forward, and also moves drag to the rear, putting it behind the centre of mass, this generally means that an object will be at least somewhat aerodynamically stable

Center of pressure is the term. The center of pressure is rearward because of drag forces on the cap, and the pen would seek to rotate around it's center of mass which is probably forward. It's balanced like a dart. Obviously.

Thats exactly what he tested in the windtunnel. If something could drop down the windtunnel, then its terminal velocity is faster than the wind, which was 180 mph.

Sheer genius Loyd lol

So you're saying there's a chance! 😆

​@@ArthurHerbst It won't fall stable at that angle for multiple seconds. You'd be lucky to break 50 mph

@@petersmythe6462hmm, might be true. So it's only the terminal velocity for a relatively stable decent.

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@@TheM0JEC IDK, but his content is awesome. I loved that he was talking into a pair of corded channellocks.

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@@ProfessionalByNoMeans yeah loved that part where he ignored that mass generates velocity or energy over time and tried to prove with a leaf blower that a penny cant fall at 35mph.

Mythbusters "busted" a myth once and said that popping a kernel of popcorn surrounded by multiple cellphones being called all at once was impossible. That was BS. A few years prior to that episode, at a party, we popped 4 or 5 kernels of popcorn by surrounding them with 5 cellphones and calling them with 5 others. I completely lost all respect for that show afterwards.

@@punawelewele Nice lie lmao. even a thousand phones wouldnt produce enough radio waves to pop a single kernel ☠if it was possible a real video would exist but all of them are edited or fails

@@_maliciousIntent Why would I lie? 😕 You think maybe I'm fishing for likes? In a 6 month old comment where op only got 17 likes? Believe what you want mfkr but it happened.

@@punawelewele I mean, people lie on the internet all the time. You could be lying just to give yourself some validation for not liking the show. I mean, there have been plenty of times where Mythbusters have gotten myths wrong and even gone back and retested some instances with even more variables and got different results. The fact that you're going to "lose all respect" for the show because they got one instance of a myth wrong that you presumably recreated yourself says more about yourself than the show. But in relation to OPs post...they tested the penny drop test and came to the conclusion that while it could hurt you, a penny dropped from the Empire State building wouldn't be fatal. They even made a sort of launching device that could match the speeds of a penny reaching terminal velocity and shot it down at a skull in ballistic gel before Adam was convinced enough to put his own hand in the way and it didn't even break the skin. He said it stung a little but there was no way that it would end up with severe or life threatening injuries. The only way it could possibly cause serious injury is if you had a Nope situation where you happened to be looking up and the coin penetrated your eye cavity.

@@punawelewele I think its your brain that popped if you think that's possible lmao

right?! Thanks for the canon help dude!

I was thinking the same thing, it would likely push the pen into the skull

I would agree. plus a wind tunnel test would probably show that it is possible but in real world with cross wind probably unlikely. That being said it is very irresponsible for anyone to drop anything off a sky scraper.

This does show that its possible, though very unlikely. If the leaf blower test was actually at 180mph then a pen like this in ideal conditions could exceed the speeds necessary for the end result we get.

@@phoenixburns79 No, as the pen was not tumbling freely in the leafblower test and would never be facing point-down long enough to do so. Just because it goes through a point-down phase of its flight does not mean it will do so for the ~6 seconds needed to go from low horizontal terminal velocity to high vertical orientation terminal velocity. It will most likely just fly past vertical for milliseconds, gain a few mph, and continue tumbling, losing that few mph. There is no reason it will ever balance for 6+ seconds at the unstable equilibrium point.

@@David-kn2il Yeah but unless it's an actual fin-stabilized dart or a pretty large ball bearing, it's mostly just gonna annoy anyone below. Not punch a hole in them. In fact, there's a pretty good chance it'll never reach the street, either colliding back into the building or getting blown upwards faster than it can fall.

@@phoenixburns79 Like, if by "possible but unlikely" you are implying the same sort of odds of throwing a sharp metal pencil on a flat metal surface and having it land upright and stay that way, perfectly balanced at a subatomic scale, sure. million standard deviations from the mean is technically possible. But we don't need to be concerned with those kinds of possibilities. No more than we need to be concerned about archers with finless arrows hitting something a couple hundred yards out.

Stand under a skyscraper i’ll test it with you

Hahaha

A few times mach if the air is cold/room temperature, though it depends on the length of barrel (to give longer acceleration distance and avoid crushing the pen from too much force), reservoir pressure (to give higher acceleration force), sabot area (to give higher acceleration force), and sabot weight relative to pen (to increase the fraction of force which is put into accelerating the pen, not the sabot).

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@@HardToDestroyReptile Lol nice to see there's still some people on the internet who can take a joke and tolerate weirdness.

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100% agree

I had to look it up! 45 mph thats fast! Ive thought about worlds fastest trashcan too 🤷🏼‍♂️