birbs@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Have you ever asked yourself why some priceless artifacts from far away places are in your country
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6 months agoI’m British, visited an anthropology museum last week and left feeling angry. Give it all back.
I’m British, visited an anthropology museum last week and left feeling angry. Give it all back.
Human terminal velocity is roughly 56 m/s. Let’s say our superhero wants to decelerate the person at 10G, which should be survivable for a short period. That would be 0.6 seconds of deceleration over 48 m. That’s a short time but quite a long distance, let’s slow down faster:
20G -> 0.28 seconds, 24 m.
30G -> 0.19 seconds, 16 m.
50G -> 0.11 seconds, 9.6 m.
100G -> 0.057 seconds, 4.79 m.
200G -> 0.029 seconds, 2.45 m.
5000G -> 0.0011 seconds, 3.6 inches.
A 40 mph car crash in a modern car into a solid wall gives around 15G.
F1 driver David Purley survived a 180G crash in 1977.
In short, I don’t recommend catching someone with 3 inches to spare.
I thought this was the adoring fan from Oblivion until I saw someone linked the source.