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\"tygerwilde
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Umm, turkenlukz, sorry to tell you this man, but your arguement defies algebraic formula.
I learned last year that an objects speed when falling is determined by multiplying it\'s density by it\'s height then dividing by friction. if dropped on it\'s side from a high enough height a penny could indeed cut through someone\'s head. I\'ve never done the math, so I don\'t know if it could do it from the empire state building or not...
Also, since force =mass multiplied by speed squared, a penny traveling at thirty miles an hour is like being hit by a single penny with the mass of 900 pennies.
that\'s a lot of weight for such a small surface area.
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This is the exact reason I said, please feal free to flame now, I knew someone who did not have the whole facts would dispute me, I do however aknowledge the fact that I was wrong, I thought the speed was 30.2 mph err whatever, and only typed 30, and it is 60.2. I just did not feel like typing all that in about mythbusters, which is where I learned the same thing.
THANKS alot, I really appreciate that Oru
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\"The terminal velocity of a penny is about 60.3 miles per hour (I think it was). It does not have the force to break bone or usually even break the skin. On Mythbusters (on the Discovery channel) they rigged up a staple gun to shoot pennies at terminal velocity. They also shot eachother with it and only came out with a few bruises.
They also rigged a rifle or shotgun or some other form of firearm to shoot a penny at about the same speed as a bullet. When shot at the same speed as a bullet, it had the same effect as a bullet and shattered the dummy head they were using to prove that a penny *cannot* fall off the Empire State Building and kill people at the bottom or wedge itself in the concrete unless somehow someone shot from the top with a gun.\"
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\"tygerwilde
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Registration Date: June 2003
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Umm, turkenlukz, sorry to tell you this man, but your arguement defies algebraic formula.
I learned last year that an objects speed when falling is determined by multiplying it\'s density by it\'s height then dividing by friction. if dropped on it\'s side from a high enough height a penny could indeed cut through someone\'s head. I\'ve never done the math, so I don\'t know if it could do it from the empire state building or not...
Also, since force =mass multiplied by speed squared, a penny traveling at thirty miles an hour is like being hit by a single penny with the mass of 900 pennies.
that\'s a lot of weight for such a small surface area.
end quote\"
This is the exact reason I said, please feal free to flame now, I knew someone who did not have the whole facts would dispute me, I do however aknowledge the fact that I was wrong, I thought the speed was 30.2 mph err whatever, and only typed 30, and it is 60.2. I just did not feel like typing all that in about mythbusters, which is where I learned the same thing.
THANKS alot, I really appreciate that Oru
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\"The terminal velocity of a penny is about 60.3 miles per hour (I think it was). It does not have the force to break bone or usually even break the skin. On Mythbusters (on the Discovery channel) they rigged up a staple gun to shoot pennies at terminal velocity. They also shot eachother with it and only came out with a few bruises.
They also rigged a rifle or shotgun or some other form of firearm to shoot a penny at about the same speed as a bullet. When shot at the same speed as a bullet, it had the same effect as a bullet and shattered the dummy head they were using to prove that a penny *cannot* fall off the Empire State Building and kill people at the bottom or wedge itself in the concrete unless somehow someone shot from the top with a gun.\"
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