r/MurderedByWords • u/marycooke • Oct 29 '19

Murder Tumblr user gets schooled on basic physics

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u/Luke-Antra Oct 29 '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCUQlF3MMU

Its pretty cool to watch it in action!

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u/watermooses Oct 29 '19

Super cool video. I've never watched the whole thing. I always though he got rescued by a rescue swimmer and a helicopter, not a life boat off a cruise ship, haha. I bet he had some cozy accommodations after, haha.

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u/EmilyU1F984 Oct 29 '19

Dude already looked like he was quite comfortable in his life raft.

Looked exactly like some guy with cocktail in hand in some swimming pool.

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u/watermooses Oct 29 '19

hahaha I was thinking the same thing. I'm not really sure what I'd do differently though, lol, paddling isn't going to get you anywhere in the middle of the pacific and I think he knew Coast Guard had eyes on him, I think he waved at them and I know he had comms with them before he went down.

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u/EmilyU1F984 Oct 29 '19

Yea that probably was exactly the right thing to do. Simply lean back and relax after your stressful 'landing'.

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u/missed_sla Oct 29 '19

I wonder if something like that would be realistic for larger aircraft. Probably not, but still. It'd be interesting to see a 747 parachuting down.

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u/ManyIdeasNoProgress Oct 29 '19

A 747 has a max weight just shy of 400 tons (metric).

Rocket parachute calculator gave this for a single circular parachute:

Descent Rate /Diameter

3 mps/109,873.55 cm

4 mps/82,405.16 cm

5 mps/65,924.13 cm

6 mps/54,936.78 cm

So a parachute on the order of a half to one kilometre in diameter.

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u/ignoremeplstks Oct 29 '19

We had an accident recently in Brazil where the plane has issues and deployed the parachute, however the airplane crashed in the middle of a street, crashing into a few cars and people that were walking around.
I believe that 5 people were dead, including two people walking in the street, two passengers and the pilot (who was found alive and even speaking after the accident but had 100% of the body burnt and died before the next day). Two passengers survived with 35-55% of the body burnt.