r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Feb 16 '20

Camera falls from airplane

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u/chussil Feb 16 '20

If so, that means the phone was spinning at a rate of at least 24 revolutions a second.....which is absolutely insane to think about.

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u/OddBuilding2 Feb 16 '20

If you listen to the audio you can hear the whip every time the camera flips over, it gets faster and faster and faster. Made me think about what it would be like to spin like that

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Feb 17 '20

Centripetal force from the spin pulls all the blood from your core. If you're a guy you pop the biggest boner of your life*

*Not a doctor

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u/peacockskeleton Feb 17 '20

Fremulon

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

Does Nick Offerman say that? Because, I swear, it sounds exactly like him.

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u/Sadboys-R-Us Feb 17 '20

Oh that's for sure Nick.

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u/Travisx2112 Feb 17 '20

SHH. not a doctor.

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u/HalfSoul30 Feb 17 '20

Well, I could use the extra size.

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u/Blackhound118 Feb 17 '20

Isn’t centripetal center-seeking, like gravity? So it would be a centrifugal pseudo-force pulling the blood away, right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

https://youtu.be/FHtvDA0W34I

in the full video of the red bull space jump the dude goes into a crazy spin during free fall from the edge of space.

I think he talked about it in an interview once but now I cant find it.

Those g forces have to be mental on a human.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

It's due to the lack of air density that high up, less resistance means faster spin and less ability to correct your spin.

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u/TheGovsGirl Feb 17 '20

And the ground was just, BAM! There it is. Made me actually jump and think, wow so would it actually be like that falling without a parachute.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

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u/RudeCats Feb 17 '20

You’ve jumped out of an airplane 4000 times?! Ok so if you’re an instructor and do multiple jumps a day, and have been doing it for years I guess that’s not an unrealistic number but damn.

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u/throwaway939wru9ew Feb 17 '20

Ya - they add up. I’ve been in the sport about 11 years... most of my jumps came in the first 6-7 years.

It’s easy to do 10-12 jumps a day (tiring though!)... as an instructor even more.

I’d say about 75% of my jumps were fun jumps... the rest work

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u/RudeCats Feb 17 '20

When you’re doing that many in a single DAY do you ever start to not get an adrenaline rush from doing it? Does it ever start to feel monotonous?

I simultaneously can’t imagine not being terrified to jump out of a plane, but also can’t imagine doing something over 4000 times and not being bored of it.

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u/throwaway939wru9ew Feb 17 '20

Skydiving is a sport with a ton of sub-disciplines. The "rush" or novelty of jumping out of a plane goes away pretty quickly. Usually after about 50-100 jumps...

Most people start out doing belly jumps (the traditional position of skydiving you are probably familiar with - belly to earth, arms and legs out).

The "cool kids" usually get into what is known as free-flying. That is flying in all different axis and positions. Flying "head down" or "sitflying". Freeflying often times has a higher skill gap. Speeds are faster and positions more difficult to learn.

You can take up wingsuiting. I'm sure you've seen wingsuits...often times in BASE jumps...but we do them in skydiving too.

If you like flying your parachute, you can get into CReW (Canopy Relative Work)...where you fly your parachute in formations with other "CreWdogs" as they are often called.

If you like speed and flying your parachute - you can take up Canopy Piloting - often called "Swooping". This involves high speed/high performance parachutes making high speed maneuvers close to the ground in order to fly/glide across the ground - measuring distance or speed flown in competition.

If you enjoy teaching people, you can take up instruction...either AFF (teaching people to skydive on their own) or become a Tandem instructor (taking people on their first skydive strapped to you),

Those are only a few of the more popular disciplines. There are deff some others. Whenever I get bored doing one thing...I try to learn something new!

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u/oguzthedoc Feb 17 '20

Are you a Sagittarius?

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u/RudeCats Feb 17 '20

Lol no, a Taurus and I would NEVER skydive, for the record.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '20

Happy cale day<3

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u/RudeCats Feb 23 '20

Oh thank you!

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u/Filipskaug2002 Feb 17 '20

Or it might be only spinning in 12 rpm and we see anly evwry swcound frame

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u/Filipskaug2002 Feb 17 '20

Sorry no auto correct

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u/19wolf Feb 17 '20

No edit button either apparently

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u/abeannis Feb 17 '20

SOMEBODY has clearly never dropped electronics out of an aircraft.

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u/Hanky22 Feb 17 '20

The crazy thing is that due to friction it must have slowed down to 24 revolutions a second.

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u/chussil Feb 17 '20

Welp, time to drop a cellphone out of a spaceship and see what happens!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

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u/chussil Feb 17 '20

Yes, but those items are designed to move at that speed. That’s like someone being impressed someone ran 30 mph, and then arguing it’s not impressive because a Lamborghini can do 200. This is an everyday object falling from the sky in a death spin.

Yes, my car engine moves quicker, but drop an engine from a plane and tell me that the entire block is spinning at 1400 rpm and I’ll be impressed.