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Chop1n t1_j1zt577 wrote

Reply to comment by MikeHawkMasterBaiter in Flying cars can actually eventually become a thing by Jalen_1227

You couldn't be arsed to spend five seconds googling before writing this comment? Seriously?

It's utterly incapable of causing serious injury. Do you not understand the concept of terminal velocity?

https://www.livescience.com/18832-penny-dropped-skyscraper.html

"Instead, it would flutter to the ground like a leaf. If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead — "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And he should know. He recently used wind tunnels and helium balloons to replicate the fall of pennies from skyscrapers. When experimental pennies struck him, it didn't hurt. "I think one bounced off my face once," Bloomfield told Life's Little Mysteries."

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MikeHawkMasterBaiter t1_j1zus7b wrote

Alright you win but debris from 2 aircrafts colliding are not pennies.

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Chop1n t1_j1zx4no wrote

Well that's a goalpost move, isn't it? My criticism was about you perpetuating the urban myth about pennies and nothing else. I didn't go on to say "Therefore your analogy is invalid" or something.

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MikeHawkMasterBaiter t1_j1zz638 wrote

Alright you win!!!

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Chop1n t1_j1zzibw wrote

Thank you. I will now eat this slice of cake for breakfast as if I'd accomplished something meaningful.

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