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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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So you're saying that a small piece of lead with the same mass as a feather if dropped at the same time from the same height would fall to earth in a similar fashion to the feather and come to rest at the same time? Not on this planet with its atmosphere it won't.
Cheers
Mr North