Same deal with a penny dropped from the Empire State Building. Terminal velocity is about 50 mph, enough to sting you pretty good but not nearly enough to kill
The terminal velocity of an average rain drop is about 10 mph, and that's why they don't kill you
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Get a silver dollar, and we're talking a murder weapon
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But don't every go skydiving in the rain!https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/squiggle-reasoning-the-skydiving-animals-problem/ …
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and my students thought that relative velocity was a waste of their time..
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My brother the skydiver: Why don’t skydivers jump in the rain? ::: Because all those pointy raindrops hurt.
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I think that even if rain would fall with higher speed, taking into consideration rain is common, we would have evolved to resist the impact of drops... Well, or perhaps not...
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