Destined by Gravity to Fail, We Try
Having fallen from the roof not once, but twice,
I verify that it is not the fall but the sudden stop that hurts.
The objectivist sense of the little: the and a, my house in this world.
Galileo postulated that gravity accelerates all falling bodies at the same rate.
While their etymologies differ, failure and fall share commonalities,
though terminal velocity is not one.
The distance between the glimpsed and the demonstrated.
Enthralled in the moment, Icarus drowned.
Rumor has it his plunge was due not to melting wax but to an improper mix
of rectrices and remiges: parental failure.
Thrust and lift. Drag. Resistance.
Acknowledgment of form in reality, in things.
When the produced drag force equals the plummeting object’s weight, the
object will cease to accelerate and will move at a constant speed.
To calculate impact force accurately, include the stopping distance in height.
Followed by long periods of silence.
This first appeared on the blog in December 2015.
So it’s actually the silence that kills. Spread the word!
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You may be on to something, Ken!
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owww!
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We won’t talk about the third fall…
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Mmmm moving at a constant speed and acceleration…….. A sudden stop surely hurts indeed. It depends on what actually happened.
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Man slips and meets earth…
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Man slips and gets caught up by a parachute in a sudden rush…………..
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I’ve chosen to avoid the roof these days…
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You need to tread cautiously…….
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But then it got me thinking too to avoid slippery floors after taking a 🚿 I’m sure this fall is that funny……
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I no longer laugh at my falls. They hurt!
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Well I do cause life waits for no one……. When you keep thinking about the hurts it stations you at one point…….
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It is good to keep moving…
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That’s true…. Or you might get stuck feeling sorry for yourself.
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I don’t bounce as well as I once did.
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That’s good…… 👌
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Ouch. Has me thinking of my recent fall in the driveway – head fell further than ankles – and hurt worse afterward. Guessing too short a distance for drag force to equal plummeting weight, but curious to consider. (I’ll happily live with curiosity – no experimenting to calculate.)
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I recommend that we leave those experiments to the younger set.
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