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Originally Posted by Wittmann
Do you really believe all that you have said ? Preposterous.
You are wrong in practically every word. You must have left school whilst in short pants to say things like that. How utterly ridiculous.
If a feather weighed a ton, it would drop like a ton. It would no longer be a feather. Mass, shape and surface area determine drag. Terminal velocity is proportional to mass. The reason a feather floats down slowly is that it has a tiny mass and a large surface area. If it weighed a ton, it would drop like a ton and make a huge crater in Mother Earth`s crust on impact.
Come off it, pick up your text books and start again.
Have you never heard the oldie - "What falls faster, a pound of feathers or a pound of peas ?"
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Yey, you confirmed my thoughts exactly, unable to actually step back and think about what you're saying.
Not only do you disregard density completely, but do so in spectacular style. A quick question for you, how heavy is an iceberg? If the answer is "A lot" now ask why do they not fall to the bottom of the ocean? When you answer that, come back to me and remember that a pound of feathers only falls the same rate as a pound of peas in a vacuum.
If mass only determined rates of falling etc, planes would never work, birds couldn't fly etc etc.
Note: If a feather weighted a tonne, it would be flipping huge in area, and thus, the same dynamics of drag would apply. It would still fall, like a feather.
Edit: Remember,
Mass and Weight are 2 different things.
