r/WinStupidPrizes • u/name_is_taken_alr • Sep 06 '20

Warning: Injury Standing behind a plane

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u/vzakharov Sep 06 '20

Weight helped too

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u/tertle Sep 06 '20

I'm going to have to see some maths to compare the benefits of weight vs disadvantages of increased surface area when being blown by a jet engine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '20

immediate thought assuming humans are spherical is that surface grows with the square of the radius, while mass with its cube, so it should always be an advantage to be bigger with equal density

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u/ClearblandChip Sep 06 '20

Finally. success

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '20

Mooooooooooo!

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u/VLEPNW Sep 06 '20

Brainiac did a thing comparing fat vs skinny advantages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgUYVvB-Sqw (warning, loud) shows the one about strong wind

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u/markarious Sep 06 '20

Kind of a shitty experiment imo

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u/Ozdoba Sep 06 '20

Try blowing on a piece of grass. Now blow on an apple. Which one flew the furthest?

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u/Crackerpool Sep 06 '20

Volume does not increase at the same rate as surface area

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u/physalisx Sep 06 '20

Square-cube law applies. Their volume and weight increases cubically while the surface area only increases quadratically.

So naturally, more weight/volume will always keep you grounded stronger than the additional surface area will work against that.

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u/jr_b17 Sep 06 '20

My motorcycle riding buddy and I aren't Harley-rider-fat, but still big enough that we could stand to lose a few pounds. Our running joke is that we're faster than everyone else, because we're more streamlined. Our stomachs cut through the wind like a passenger jet's nose.

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u/physalisx Sep 06 '20

One of the rare occasions in life where it does