I'm generally uneducated in this field but, I've had a theory for a long time that if you were to change the angle of your body during the fall that you could possibly gain height and "Miraculously" soften your fall. Do you think that this would be possible without something like a wing suit?
You know Kyle, I came here for a possibly reduction of my anxiety of skydiving with my cousin and thought you could help. It didn't. Very interesting listen though xD
Sooo... Got to ask, not because I'm evil or anything, but can you do an episode on giant cannons like the ones from halo or ace combat.(could we make them irl and how, what effects would our atmosphere have on their range and trajectories, how we would aim a giant cannon and how far could we fire a shell on earth or could we launch a shell into space). Again, not evil. Thanks 😀
I thought about this as a kid a lot. I always asked myself how I could kill an ant by tossing it out of a plane. After a while I came to the conclusion, that it has to be about the size and weight that it always survived. My solution to this problem? Bundle thousands of ants to a human shaped package and toss this out of a plane. Man, as a kid I would have been a good apprentice in Kyles super villain crew.
@@nickleo7586 When you look at it, it makes sense. But your average person just accepts it with out understanding it. Kinda like "flat Earthers" that use technology that requires satellites, like GPS. But will still argue that the Earth is flat and it is all a conspiracy by the dark forces of "spherical Earthers". Edit: or more precisely "oblate spheroid Earthers".
@@nickleo7586 "orbit", "free fall" and "geodesic" are all the same thing - when only gravity / space-time curvature directs your motion. On our moon, or any body devoid of atmosphere, simply jumping up would be free fall. A falling body is essentially in a ballistic orbits (i.e. the periapsis is within the orbited body), and without atmosphere would also be free fall.
@@kapythebara5089 Sometimes, when someone replies to a message I posted 2 years ago, I see the reply and wonder why they bothered. ...this is not one of those times. Thank you! It feels like that answer was long overdue...
You think we mortal humans can achieve such beautiful and flowing hair and muscles? I mean, have you even taken a better look at this Kyle? He says his name is Kyle, but I think that's just how his species refer to themselves, "Hi, I'm a Kyle." "What? You mean you are Kyle, not you are a Kyle. Heh, funny Kyle." you know? Also, that explains his villainy actions, that is what they do on his home planet or world. They are sort of like Saiyans. Omg Kyle can become a super saiyan! Where is Krillin btw?
Me: *Falls out of plane* Also me: *watches this vid on the way down* Also also me: *realises Kyle never tells you how to survive a fall if your human* Me: NOW LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SH*T *splat*
Hi, Kyle! Great show! This is my first time commenting. Just want to correct that falling cats don't spread their legs to increase their surface area and increase their drag. They do it to turn their bodies around as part of their righting reflex so they land on their paws. Because of the conservation of angular momentum, the cats' spread out legs allow it to rotate its body just like the way an ice skater spins faster or slower if its arms are tucked in or spread out. But don't drop your cats to experiment on this! 🐱 Thanks and more power to your show!
I remember this being on a previous episode of Because Science... If Antman maintained his full-size human mass while shrunk to the size of an ant, his terminal velocity would be something like Mach 77!
Well he was. He said that puny hoomans could fall and somewhat survive if they hit trees or snow to help break up and spread out the impact of the fall.
@@Kartoffelkamm went real dark, real fast as an adendum, with it raining cats and dogs at the same time, the falling dogs impacts would probably also crush the surviving cats unless they somehow managed to get out of the open and into cover immediately after they landed.
No, the dogs wouldn’t explode... they’d make wet slapping and cracking noises similar to the burger rain in Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs. Because science!
Falling from exteme hights rips the clothes off of people. False eyelashes and high heels should survive but if he himself doesn't land on a surprised lumberjack then all you'll have is a naked man sized hole in the ground.
@@skylx0812 err. No. He could put a very sexy dress on with a lot of fabric and some cind of winged boots and super durable eyelashes to maximise drag!
LOL. I am often suspected of extraterrestrial origin. Because I often refer to people as humans. Not that I am not a human. I just identify differently from the majority of humanity. I think maybe it's because I see humanity as being the most wild, untamed and dangerous of all beasts.
I think it's really cool that you gave us the pieces to solve the equation, let us do it, then gave us the answer. I felt like it helped me understand the information that much clearer.
I haven't watched in a while but I just wanted to say that I appreciate the effort you put into these videos. They played a strong part in getting my little brother interested in science and for that I cant thank you enough.
I remember watching many of these experiments in my studies, most often conducted by a Professor Wile E. Coyote, Supergenius. I believe he's world renowned for many of his... groundbreaking experiments.
Most people have heard "it's not velocity that kills people, it's acceleration", or my favorite version of it: "Speed has never killed someone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you" said Jeremy Clarkson once. But I beg to differ, the acceleration itself shouldn't kill you, it's the result of the acceleration, namely, parts of your body having a change in distance between them. So let's say theoretically your body gets accelerated really quickly, but instead of having the acceleration differ between the different parts of your body, every single molecule in your body accelerates in the exact same direction and with the exact same speed at the exact same time, you should survive it. In regular situations, let's say you're in a car, the car pushes the seats in the car, the seat pushes against your back, your back pushes against your spine, which pushes against your internal organs, etc. etc. Because of inertia and your body having mass, this makes your body compress, if you compress a little bit, it won't really affect you, but if you compress a lot, well, you probably die. Same goes for the other way around, if someone pulls you by your hand, you just feel a little pull, but if someone were to yank it, it will probably hurt. Now let's say something pulls extremely hard, extremely quick, then your arm gets torn off, but if you have a force that pulls on your entire body, your body will stay intact.
Whether or not you've studied, the _best_ thing you can do the night before an exam is get a good sleep. If you haven't studied you can still review your notes in the morning, but if you stayed up late the night before and studied, when you're tired in the morning you won't remember anything.
Randall Munroe (Xkcd, WhatIf) calculated this for a steak! If you like your steaks Pittsburgh rare and don't mind defrosting it once it lands, you COULD POTENTIALLY cook a steak by dropping it from the edge of space: what-if.xkcd.com/28/
5:51 yessss got b I remember that formula from flight school, where the lift force is the same but instead of the friction coefficient there is the lift coeficient(pretty much the same thing btw because it is based on the shape of the wing) Damn, i feel smart :))
Hey Kyle, love the show! This has always been my favorite "falling bodies" quote: "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." - J.B.S. Haldane, biologist
You should try D&D. Less things to buy, and you can share them... but they cost more. Trust me, I'm a Dungeon Master. (Yeah, my wallet hates me any time I go NEAR a game store. You just can't have too many dice.)
@@jackielinde7568 i've played D&D once. Ihave a friend whos very into it. He just lives pretty far away but I'll see if i can find some people closer to play with thanks.
@@lifeofentropy There's plenty of virtual tabletops out there, too. See if your friend knows anyone who wants to play, and you can get on one of those. Not as good as in-person, but it gets the job done.
@@lifeofentropy Hey, there's always Discord, Roll20.net, or Skype to reconnect with those far away friends. ;) But yeah, any day you get to role play is a good day.
Try out Arena. It's free to play Magic and you can do it from home in your pajamas. You have to do a bit of grinding to get your collection to a decent size through free-play, but even if you do choose to invest a bit of cash to get you started, you get way more bang for your buck than paper. Paper magic is fun of course (I enjoy the social aspect of it), but Arena is much more budget friendly if your wallet needs a breather.
@@silverstar4505 It's a song lyric from a song by the same name. I can't remember who originally sang the song, since all I'm getting is R Kelly and I seem to remember the song being much older than that. By the way: Erev Tov.
Yo Kyle! Love the channel! While it is true that ants could theoretically survive any height, Ant-Man could not. Canonically, Ant-Man retains his initial mass, making him fall even faster than ants due to the reduced surface area to catch drag.
I'm kind of a grammar... stickler. I have been campaigning against the misuse of less vs fewer for some years. Just want to put it out there that your use of less was correct and that warmed my cockles. Love the show BTW
Well if you had the initial velocity of a large person, you’d slowly slow down to the proper terminal velocity of the smaller you; however, if you didn’t have enough fall time, it would be the equivalent of being yeeted towards the ground.
@@kieronmckay4276 technically, Ant-Man's mass is very inconsistent when he shrinks or grows, one of his preferred tactics is to punch with the force of a 180lb man while less than an inch tall even though that should mean that he should cut an ant in half by siting on it.
More like "for my calculator to do right now!" No way am I doing that by hand. The arithmetic wouldn't be so bad, but no way am I trying to find sqrt(2880) without a calculator/computer.
Not recommended as if a cat lands the wrong way from inexperience (kitten) of bad alignment they do get hurt Recently had kitten die a few days after jumping off a counter about 4 feett but landed on its hea instead of frog paws cause when it jumped its hind legs moment changed its alignment to the ground from pushing off to hard to clear the counter Likewise a lot of my rescues has sprained or arthritis from fractures from landing the wrong with one of my elder cats have hurt every leg so he meowed in pain with every step and meowed really loud every time he jumped and landed from his injury arthritis
Farmer Frank My brother in law responding to his daughter worrying over a kitten stuck in a tree. He’ll be fine. Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?
When I went to U.S. Army Airborne training, an instructor made the claim that one could fall from any height and survive. It was a matter of body position and controlling momentum as you start to hit the ground. "Turn your body into a rocking chair curved skid."
Hey Kyle love the show keep at it. I have something you forgot: The ground you land on. When you fall you really don't want to be landing on the pavement and concrete (duh), but also water is really bad. Water doesn't compress (just as concrete) so water is out. If there is no other option than water, feet first. Better is a forest because trees catch you but don't stop you immediately. However trees can skewer you like saruman in return of the king. Snow is also good and soft, but best is a swamp. Swamps have lots of vines and stuff that catch you so go for a swamp. then the horse falling on to you: I used the Wikipedia variables for the larger riding horses. I used roughly the same variables for the Cd (0.5) and the A (1,1) (the horse is about 173 cm in height). For the mass I took 550 and for g 9,81 m/s/s. plugging in the numbers we get ((2x550x9,81)/(0,5x1,255x1,1))^0,5 = 125,03386 m/s that is about 5 m/s faster than a bullet at muzzle velocity (where the bullet leaves the barrel) but than a horse... on your head soooo unless you really are thor (or a super villain with some forcefield) you would be dead.
Good video as always. The other day I wondered if the Flash, or someone similarly fast, could survive a fall by changing direction as soon as one foot touched the ground, using that momentum to change direction and reduce or eliminate the damage. Thoughts?
@@BrekkaJones24 That's the clever bit! In the Poetic or Elder Edda (the main source for all things Norse), Loki is *Odin's* adoptive brother. Thor's also ginger, traditionally, and can pick up Mjolnir only because he has the requisite magic gloves, or he'd explode. Of course I can't criticise Marvel on changing things, since mythology is always changing and Norse folklore is really, really weird. If you're going by the Prose or Younger Edda, Thor's uncles instead include Paris and Hector of Troy, who took about ten years to fall. Yeah, as in, the *Trojan War.* The Greek-y one. The Prose Edda says some weird things and tries to fanfic everything anyone in Europe ever said into the same continuity, so frankly I commend Marvel on their restraint. A bonus point for Marvel is that he's totally a blondie in the Prose Edda. This is slightly strange, given that he's also half-Turkish with the rest being a mix of Ethiopian and Greek Titan, but he probably gets the Rapunzel hair from his granny, Eos, Titan Of The Dawn. Technically speaking, that makes his other uncle the Morning Star, Hesperus, also known as Lucifer (yay more falling, even if it's a totally different dude). I... hope some of that was interesting, if you've made it to the bottom! If not, sorry. I tend to get real excited with mythological pedantry because simultaneously all of it is valid and none of it is valid. :P
Here's how us nerds do it. Cast Featherfall. According to Kyle's equation, the sudden reduction of mass would effectively reduce terminal velocity to a much slower and much more survivable speed. Extra bonus nerd points, being extra slender, such as an Elf or a Gnome would also work.
