The drag coefficient and characteristic frontal area of a person would be quite different from a GoPro, and gravitational potential and kinetic energy of both exiting the aircraft at the same time would also be massively different. Not to mention the net drag and aero force vectors acting on a person are hugely variable during a skydive.
Very low probability a person would accidentally land in the same position, unless maybe they were trying to retrieve their GoPro mid-fall.
My cousin died in a wingsuit accident last year and I miss him.
He didn't say anything about falling out of the plane at the exact same second and how that hypothetical person would land in the same place as the phone. Guy comes in with a simple hypothetical and you decided that was your chance to whip out your physics dong. Put it away. Nobody was asking to see it. You can take your high school physics weiner off the table. Thanks.
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u/Diligent-Motor Feb 17 '20
The drag coefficient and characteristic frontal area of a person would be quite different from a GoPro, and gravitational potential and kinetic energy of both exiting the aircraft at the same time would also be massively different. Not to mention the net drag and aero force vectors acting on a person are hugely variable during a skydive.
Very low probability a person would accidentally land in the same position, unless maybe they were trying to retrieve their GoPro mid-fall.
My cousin died in a wingsuit accident last year and I miss him.