Acceleration of a free falling object?

[midnight Target]

Now if I were to hold a conservative in my left hand and a liberal in my right hand...and drop them both from the space needle in Seattle, How far would each one fall from Ripsnort?

[HFMudd]

Not far, they would get hung up on the wire netting they put in place to halt this sort of thing.

If you got them past the wire, then I suppose we would need to know the amount of lobbiest $upport that is holding each one up in order to give you an answer.

[MrBill]

Anyone have a link to the regular Ping-Pong ball VS the sand filled Ping-Pong ball that was debated over on brand W long ago.  That one went to several cases of brew and lawn chair bunions.  Super funny!

[hardcase]

You are talking Neutonian Physics here. Albert gave it a different bent, or warp:-)

hardcase

[rogwar]

Originally posted by Bluedog

He he... I was bored after lunch at work today, so I strolled out the back, sparked up a joint, then went and hassled the big angry bikie bloke in the machine shop next door, we went from talking about the show he saw on telly last night about what caused the dinosaurs to all die out, to him telling me that no way a meteor hitting earth could have done it, to me arguing that a meteor is screaming right along, to atmosphere re-entry angles for space craft, the future of air travel and the velocity of free falling objects......or something like that, the J makes it all a bit blurry now ;-)
Anyway, he flat disagrees about the two objects of differing weights falling/accelerating at the same rate, and I would REALLY like to prove him wrong.
Can anyone set me straight?

Thanks
Blue

You know the fun thing about life is to notice once in awhile living comedy. Bluedog your question and post are definitely valid and I mean nothing derogatory.

But gents, can you imagine watching a skit of this conversation?

I love living comedy and I'm sure I put on a lot of the same.

[Tac]

as far as his meteor comments, just tell him that any chunk of rock half a mile in diameter has the firepower of thousands of megaton nuke bombs going off.

His atmosphere re-entry crap is nonsense. that only applies to objects that WANT to enter the atmosphere without burning up. Earth's atmosphere will destroy most of the stuff that enters it directly or it will "bounce" off objects approaching from certain angles or speeds. That is why the shuttle has to enter earths atmosphere at such a criticically precise angle and speed.

A piece of rock a mile long however, could care less about how it enters atmosphere.. nor will it bounce off because its just too damn massive to bounce off. Think pebble trying to bounce in water.. too big it sinks no matter how hard or how soft you throw it, a small sized pebble will have to hit the water at a certain angle and speed to bounce (depending on its mass).