Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

Why don’t raindrops hurt? I know they’re just tiny drops of water, but they DO fall from clouds several miles up in the air. I would think anything that travels that far picking up that amount of velocity would be lethal, no? You always hear “oh, if a penny is dropped from the top of the Empire State Building it will drive into your skull and push you through the sidewalk straight thru to China, where you’ll be crushed like an accordion but still the best driver around.” Seems like a drop of liquid dropped from 6 miles up would be as damaging. Ah well. Keep in mind, I am an idiot.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Terminal velocity. Plus the droplets flatten out making them less aerodynamic than they could otherwise be. Ask Ms. Bame . . . oh you dropped that class for study hall.