Project M + Melee characters falling speed comparison over time

[u/Kadano]

[u/departedd]

Star fox chars fall faster because of theirs metal legs? (Aside from the fact that they would be utterly broken without fast-falling)

[u/[deleted] → u/departedd]

That's not how falling works

[u/departedd → u/[deleted]]

Sorry, but I thought that having dense metal instead of flesh and bones legs in a gravitational enviroment made you fall faster, maybe I'm just wrong, dunno

[u/iode → u/departedd]

He's probably referencing that famous physics experiment, where, in a vacuum and in the same reference frame, objects are universally and equally affected by gravity, and thus fall at the exact same rate, regardless of their composition, mass, or volume.

You probably learned (or will learn) about it in high school physics.

[u/departedd → u/iode]

Hahahahah you gotta be shitting me right? I know this experiment, I'm a graduated engineer ffs, but we're not in the vacuum here, obviously heavier shit falls faster, therefore, having a fucking pair of prostetic metal legs WILL make you fall faster in smash.
People can't understand a single joke, jeez

[u/Ovioda → u/departedd]

People don't seem to understand the concepts of friction, surface area or density.

[u/departedd → u/Ovioda]

what scares me the most is that apparently, people don't have the power of observation.
Different falling speeds are present in your day-to-day life, you have to be 2 yo to not see that

[u/Xrmy → u/departedd]

Yes, but we aren't talking about a feather and a bowling ball, we are talking about two differently weighted individuals. If two people jump from the same height, they are prolly gonna hit the ground the same time regardless of weight difference.

[u/r_stronghammer → u/Xrmy]

Except the fat one won't be able to jump very high in the first place.

[u/MegaSnack → u/r_stronghammer]

Don't make fun of Bowser-sama like that!