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# Terminal Velocity of a human is 125mp/h.
What is the terminal velocity of a Goose?
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:24, archived)
# Mach 2
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:26, archived)
# 3000 miles an hour.
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:26, archived)
# That's quite some Gs,
GMoS
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:27, archived)
# Even the more
shall we say... Aerodynamically Curvaceous among us?
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:27, archived)
# Well in Top Gun they were doing about Mach 1.2 when he bought it...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:27, archived)
# i'd say a bit less
due to the lower weight and increased air friction
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:31, archived)
# Weight is irrelevant.
I'd have thought a goose would be more streamlined.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:33, archived)
# Weight is not irrelevant, but negligable at the mass difference between a human and a goose.
A goose would have a higher terminal velocity.
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:37, archived)
# Well, I can tell you:

Glider        Minimum Glide Angle
-----         -----------------
Albatross     3.0°
Falcon        5.5°
Pigeon        9.5°
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:45, archived)
# no it's not!
oh all right, a lower MASS

the goose would only be more streamlined if it had a completely clean coat of feathers, with none out of place, and it was falling head first with its wings and feet tucked in, and its neck straight.

i would say human terminal velocity is higher
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:39, archived)
# There was a rather famous experiment on the moon,
which showed that a feather and a hammer fall at the same rate without air resistance.
edit: as for the air resistance of a goose and a human, I don't really know.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:43, archived)