Heh, you can tell it’s a zombie thread because none of the answers suggested 14 k of g in a f p d.
Well I’m stuckoed.
Vie not?
Call the mysterious drop coming in from 600 mph = 10,560 inch/sec. I’ll call 0.5 inch as a rough drop size–to humans as commonly expressed-- (not to bugs), so 5280 inch/sec.
In continuous inkjet technology, drops are ejected at 64,000-165,000 drop-sec.
It was just a passing thought.
How fast was it going?
I know this is a zombie, but wasn’t there a fighter jet that had was discovered to have trouble flying in the rain?
Thunder, obviously. Travels at 600 mph, and stops with the last raindrop.
Except when it’s thundersnow lightening up the sky!
The World’s Fastest Car driving off the rim of the Grand Canyon.
I think it’s a cell phone call or the solution above about “this sentence”. So OP, when do we get the answer?
Not a slight chance that the wording is messed up. 100% chance. Putting that sentence in quotes into Google yields nothing but this thread.
Here’s a slight chance. The answer is emergency water landing. Taken, sorta, from a mangling quote from Fight Club.
I was around for the original thread and the length of debate, but was there ever consensus for best guess what the answer should have been and what mistake was made in the question? I wasn’t on much and so don’t remember it reaching a conclusion. It is useless to search for any of the terms obviously and it has been referenced several hundred times since then.
Sheesh, OP, you haven’t listened to the radio since 2004? The People have a right to know.
Or is this a no soap radio deal?
Its official, I now hate the O.P.
All I can think about is this bloody question.
I was a happy man before I read this thread.
Rockets go well over 600mph and usually “stop” by dropping back to earth.
A bullet can travel 600 mph and stops when it “drops” the victim.
But I like the cough answer better.
Agreed. Damn Google didn’t do anything to help.
re: skydiving. at usual diving heights (< 10,000 feet,) divers don’t fall faster than 200kph (a speed skier goes even faster.) but at very high altitutes (HALO) rates of descent were clocked to go as high as 650kph.