I’m really worried about Dewey Finn.
It’s a little-known secret that planes don’t actually move at all. They just go up, and the world rotates beneath them, then they come down. That’s why it’s quite safe to jump on a plane.
Psst, OP: If the airplane is going 500 mph, so are you! That’s how you both get there at the same time.
Excuse me ma’am, I missed my layover. I think it had something to do with relativity or some such.
and they have to keep them off when the plane is taking off and landing - that’s why you feel the g-forces then.
Me, too! It’s been too long! Where was he going? How long was the flight? Shouldn’t he have posted by now? Where’s Dewey?!?!?!
Ach, Dewey, we hardly knew ye.
They wear special acceleration-compensating shoes.
-D/a
And they use magnetic coffee (yes, that’s why it tastes like that)
Yes, you die. It may take another 80 years or so, but eventually, you die.
It catches up with you, does it?
Does anyone know where we can send flowers to Dewey’s family?
He was brave but it was ultimately foolish to risk his life doing something that all the science in the world should have told him not to attempt.
Greetings to all! I’m a relatively new “poster”, but a long time lurker (is that the correct terminology?
) and a HUGE fan of the SDMB.
Permit me, if I may… IMHO (not to mention, more than a few instances of moving impacts with terra firma!:eek:) it’s not so much a “Splat”, as it is a kind of “crunching, grinding and flapping” noise, along with sounds of rapidly expelled air, intermingled with grunts, yelps, screeches and generally indecipherable exclamations. Granted, this is a completely subjective (?) observation. They were from (not in any chronological order): the back of a truck (1 time @ approx. 30 mph), the sudden loss of directional stability on a motorcycle(s) (at LEAST, 4 times:smack: @ speeds ranging from 30 mph to approx. 55 mph) And at NO TIME, can I EVER recall hearing ANYTHING, even APROACHING, the sound of “SPLAT”. I WILL allow that MY personal experiences with said phenomena, were NOT from an airplane. but I think it safe to say that the similarities are obvious… Fall STRAIGHT DOWN… You go, SPLAT!.. Fall DOWN, WITH FORWARD MOTION ADDED… NO SPLAT! I thank y’all in advance, for excusing any “faux pas” (I’m trying to sound “worldly”, dang it!:D) that I may have committed, within this post, and will gladly take note of any “constructive” criticisms.
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Philster… someone will be along with just enough energy to explain how, when you look at PSXer’s posts, he resembles a message board equivalent of Andy Kaufmann, posing scenarios pretty much outlandish but just believable enough that he’ll get most people thinking he’s genuine, give or take a few.
I’m touched by your concern. Still alive as far as I can tell.
Yay! Science wins!
Okay smart guys, answer this, then: Why can I jump up in a plane with no ill effects, but if I try it on a motorcycle, I end up as road kill? Oh, we’re not so glib and talky NOW, are we. . .Jack?
So, are you saying Andy Kaufmann would have been able to conduct an experiment where he jumped on a airliner and went splat? Damn, that would have been nice.
All I have are memories of him making that wrassler out to be a legit bad guy (and I have friends who still don’t know the whole thing was staged. Kudos to Andy).
I’ll give it a shot -
In an airplane - you are inside of the item in question - away from the affects of wind resistance, etc.
Similarly if you were in the back of a moving truck (box truck, not pickup).
Where if you are on a motorcycle, you are affected by wind resistance - you will notice that when you jump up on the motorcycle, you do continue to move forward for some distance - just not as quickly as the bike does. Conversely, if you suddenly stop the bike - you continue forward.
In the old days, planes had a “passenger trap” in the tapered “cone” shaped part of the rear of the plane to catch passengers who jumped or otherwise lost their footing during flight. They were meant to decelerate the passenger in the hopes that they may survive and they were fairly effective. When a passenger didn’t survive, the pilots would report that they had an “ice cream cone” aboard. This was code to alert the airport to have emergency services standing by to recover the remains of the passenger from the rear cone of the plane. These specialists were given the nickname “ice cream scoopers.” Of course, these passenger traps were phased out after the cones of the planes were ordered to be filled in by the FAA following the events of 1971 (and I don’t think anybody needs to be reminded of what happened in 1971). Now it’s just a solid wall, and, according to a Mythbusters episode I watched, it’s nearly impossible to survive hitting it.