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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 8/18/2009
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nahh not really, he was clapped up on the heresy charge because he bored it up the dodgy bastads who got the gig to build the bleedin tower.. you know maintainence of the staus quo.. and lets face it the mafia have been round for a loooongg time
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/18/2009
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lololololol.... I don't know. All I can answer to is that he was held a heretic because he thought the Earth went 'round the sun and not the other way... And when pressed by the church to admit his error he said (kind'a) "The Sun goes 'round the Earth... but I still think the Earth goes 'round he Sun."
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 8/18/2009
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Pisa.. say isnt that on earth yeah that's right he dropped a lead weight and a feather.. yeah I remember.. then he went and balled out the dodgy bastads who ripped off all the expensive building materials and replaced it with cheap crap.. how italian is that?? hence the building leans or is that gravity...
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/18/2009
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Small point... mass has bearing only if momentum is involved. A dead drop is equal as proven by Galileo and his experiments from Pisa.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 8/18/2009
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err I think you may be wrong about initial velocity as mass does have bearing until V (Terminal Velocity) is achieved http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/termv.html
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 8/18/2009
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yep Jim... I'd reckon.. about as much as I did on that one of yours that I go Comment Of The Day onn the lightning shot.. Oh and BTW Sea Level in Aust is generally taken as mean sea level.. that is when it is too mean to let ya measure it properly
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/18/2009
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dang... that was prolly the most fun I ever had commenting on a pic.....
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/18/2009
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85 mtrs? Ok, I saw this and thought, “Is that exact? A guess? Or what we call a guesstament?” So I dug around in my wee brain and tried to recall the math. I pulled up: d=1/2G X T(squared) I figured I could come up with the 85 mtrs distance by calculating how long it would take you to fall to the water. I wrote and punched and ciphered and then had an epiphany…. It is NOT that formula!!!! It should be T= (Square root) of 2d divided by G!!!!!!!!!! I was an idiot….. I tells ya. I should have been trying to calculate the fall by time rather than the height by fall. Once I realized my mistake it was an easy matter to calculate T (time) if I took the square root of 2Xd ( two times the distance of 85 mtrs) and divided it all by G which as everyone knows is 9.8 mtrs per second per second. Once I had my head on straight I figured the formula would be t= 85 meters X 2 divided by 9.8 and then square rooted. That would be 170 divided by 9.8 and the sqr root would be 4.164965639175214622052966341104 seconds! So if you fell for 4.164965639175214622052966341104 seconds before hitting the finish line the fall would be exactly 85 meters! However, I am not certain if you were calculating to the rocks, the beach, the water (low or high tide) or the ocean floor at this point. And I am assuming you would not dive off but simply step off. Diving would add momentum to the equation and make the time of impact a bit less. Also, since mass is irrelevant in falling I did not figure in your weight. And naturally, I did not allow for wind direction or wind resistance since that is a variable that was not shared. So, if you step off this cliff and look at your watch… and hit a precisely designated point at 4.164965639175214622052966341104 seconds then the cliff would be exactly 85 meters high. Aside from that… maybe they are just guessing?
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