Would a worm survive a fall from an airplane (1 Viewer)

[Marvin]

The F.O.I.L Method

 

[Zow]

The F.O.I.L Method

 

[Guest]

What temperature is the concrete?

 

[Biabreakable]

I'm surprised that the live/death ratio is different on concrete versus grass. The worm is either going to live or die... it's not like the grass is just soft enough to lessen the potential death blow. Or the concrete is just hard enough to finish the job.

One or the other people, come on.

But what if the worm was in a tiny elevator and jumped in the air right before it hit the ground?

Why does it have to be a tiny elevator?

So that it's not too hard to find the wormobile.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

What temperature is the concrete?

298 Kelvin

 

[fatness]

Has the worm repented?

 

[shuke]

Boiling point

 

[pittstownkiller]

I've thought about this for a few days now and I can safely conclude that the worm wouldn't only live but it would be immortal. I would need Wikkidpissah to do the prose justice but to paraphrase Peggy Noonan (from John Magee): it escaped the surly bonds of Earth...and touched the face of God.

 

[shuke]

Doppler effect

 

[Fullback Fro]

Using the principles of the Carquines Theory, I would think that the worm would not only live but thrive. The Darling Equations in this scenario would open up something of a "worm hole".

 

[pittstownkiller]

Doppler effect

(drop)pler effect?

 

[shuke]

Critical mass

 

[Marvin]

Backwards masking

 

[Texas Football]

I voted the worm would die. I just assumed it was being dropped from a 747 at 40K feet.

That's not important now.

When I was a kid went fishing a lot. There was a stocked pond across the street. Bass, perch, catfish and some other small game. Turtles galore if you count those guys.

One memorable event when I was around 11. I had an ultimate cast one day with a worm on the hook. High arching, lots of distance and just a perfect feel as the worm flew to a known bass spawning ground. The result was amazing. Not one, but two bass breached the water to get that worm. Only one was snagged and the other was left hungry, but uncaught.

Although the cast was awesome, the worm could have never been over 10ft in the air at any given time.

What I am going to tell you next should frighten everyone. I have thought about this for years and this thread has finally put it all together.

That worm I cast never went over an altitude of 10ft. Two bass left the water for that snack.

Lets say Al Q, the Taliban or some other anti-American/Human force gains that knowledge. Extinction event.

The plan is simple:

1) Hijack/rent planes/drones.

2) Drop worms near fish occupied waters from high altitude. Lots of planes and lots of drops.

3) All the bass and other worm eating fish(I assume all of the fish types do) get to see the worm falling for minutes.

4) If the worms are dropped accurately the fish will jump out of the water to either die or evolve to land based species.

5) All the fish are dead or we have a mutated land fish to now compete with.

6) Don't forget about the turtles.

This thread should be locked and deleted.

God Bless America

 

[Mr. Soup Nazi]

This thread should be locked and deletedpinned.

 

[ATC1]

I voted the worm would die. I just assumed it was being dropped from a 747 at 40K feet.That's not important now.When I was a kid went fishing a lot. There was a stocked pond across the street. Bass, perch, catfish and some other small game. Turtles galore if you count those guys.One memorable event when I was around 11. I had an ultimate cast one day with a worm on the hook. High arching, lots of distance and just a perfect feel as the worm flew to a known bass spawning ground. The result was amazing. Not one, but two bass breached the water to get that worm. Only one was snagged and the other was left hungry, but uncaught.Although the cast was awesome, the worm could have never been over 10ft in the air at any given time.What I am going to tell you next should frighten everyone. I have thought about this for years and this thread has finally put it all together.That worm I cast never went over an altitude of 10ft. Two bass left the water for that snack.Lets say Al Q, the Taliban or some other anti-American/Human force gains that knowledge. Extinction event.The plan is simple:1) Hijack/rent planes/drones.2) Drop worms near fish occupied waters from high altitude. Lots of planes and lots of drops.3) All the bass and other worm eating fish(I assume all of the fish types do) get to see the worm falling for minutes.4) If the worms are dropped accurately the fish will jump out of the water to either die or evolve to land based species.5) All the fish are dead or we have a mutated land fish to now compete with.6) Don't forget about the turtles.This thread should be locked and deleted.God Bless America

Don't forget the smell for a gas effect. These laser guided worms? America should start stock piling birds for the invasion.

 

[gandalas]

pythagorean theorem

 

[BroadwayG]

pythagorean theorem

The worm should be much more worried about Bernoulli.

 

[Ignoramus]

Alright guys this is pretty easy to test. Figure out how hard you have to throw a baseball to get to 25-42 mph (that seems to be the range for what we think T.V. is for a worm).Throw the worm that hard from your steps to the ground.See if it survives.

how do you know when it's dead?

Oh for Christ's sake. We're letting people that don't even know how to tell if the worm is dead cast votes now? Hope your wager doesn't require an audit to certify the results, nipsey.

 

[Guest]

I would like to know the details of the wager.

Why couldn't this be tested with a sling shot like someone else mentioned. With the worm being shot straight into the air. Didn't someone calculate that the worm would reach terminal velocity in 1.5 seconds? Or would the initial acceleration of the worm being shot out of the sling shot be a voiding variable?

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

I would like to know the details of the wager. Why couldn't this be tested with a sling shot like someone else mentioned. With the worm being shot straight into the air. Didn't someone calculate that the worm would reach terminal velocity in 1.5 seconds? Or would the initial acceleration of the worm being shot out of the sling shot be a voiding variable?

the initial acc has nothing to do with it, but terminal velocity figure arrived at in this thread seems largely made up.that's basically the question.

 

[dgreen]

Regression to the mean.

 

[UOFI_316]

-5^2

 

[Biabreakable]

Regression to the mean.

This might slow the airborne worm invasion.

 

[dwarfboy]

Would a hamster die if dropped from a plane

There is no chance a worm would die.

Well to get the true force the Hamster hits with we have to know how fast it is going. He left out part of the equation it seems to me. It's the speed that kills after all.

It's not the speed; it's the sudden deceleration.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Would a hamster die if dropped from a plane

There is no chance a worm would die.

The assumption is it would take 0.5 seconds to go from terminal velocity to zero? Really? That seems especially horrible to me. I'd be surprised if it was even 5 milliseconds. The other issue is that the coefficient of drag is very difficult to estimate. Still, the biggest flaw in that estimation is the 0.5 seconds from top speed to zero. The force is way way too low.

 

[Otis]

Would a hamster die if dropped from a plane

There is no chance a worm would die.

The assumption is it would take 0.5 seconds to go from terminal velocity to zero? Really? That seems especially horrible to me. I'd be surprised if it was even 5 milliseconds. The other issue is that the coefficient of drag is very difficult to estimate. Still, the biggest flaw in that estimation is the 0.5 seconds from top speed to zero. The force is way way too low.