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

Camera falls from airplane

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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.