Subject: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop Intact
sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
Subject: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop Intact
sms is the third person to post this news item here in this newsgroup.
The other two were a whole day ago.
Subject: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop Intact
sms is the third person to post this news item here in this newsgroup.
The other two were a whole day ago.
Soaring, riding an updraft?
On 1/9/2024 12:29 PM, News wrote:
Subject: iPhone Survives 16,000 Foot Drop Intact
sms is the third person to post this news item here in this newsgroup.
The other two were a whole day ago.
Soaring, riding an updraft?
Updrafts definitely help.
Even a pebble of hail the size of a BB survives a fall from the sky.
The reason is that the height it falls isn't what actually matters.
What matters only is the final velocity (usually terminal) & surface.
If people speak of the height - they don't understand what happened.
It's clickbait for those who think the distance matters the most.
Humans have survived falling 6 miles (taller than Mount Everest is). https://www.statista.com/chart/19708/known-occasions-where-people-survived-falls/
The reason any phone could survive that fall is the terminal velocity is
what matters in calm air (updrafts will help though) & what it fell onto.
The terminal velocity of a phone is about 40 mph (but it varies greatly). https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6813341/Terminal_Velocity_of_Phone__Rev3.0.pdf
Landing atop a big bush in six feet of reasonably packed new snow helped.
<https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/someone-found-iphone-fell-16-203253353.html>
Only problem was that the charging cord had broken off leaving the end
of the Lightning cord in the phone.
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