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Terminal Velocity Impact

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Thump said:
How about an amoeba?
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. I don't know. Do amoebas (or are they amoebee?) need to live in water? Maybe if you drop them on the ground from any height they dry up and die. Or maybe they live for a while, in which case they would survive the impact, then die from lack of water. I guess I don't know enough about amoebas.
 
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Amoebas are protists, not animals. :p

Barnacles are, in fact, animals. I even looked it up to make sure.

Other fun facts I found:

"Living fixed on one spot has it's disadvantages. It is more difficult to find a partner to mate. The barnacle has overcome the problem in a really spectacular way. From it's shell the male barnacle projects a penis so huge it is many times the size of the owner. It is simply breathtaking to see how the organ finds it's way between the neighbors searching for the ideal partner."

"A most unusual Barnacle which does not construct a shell-like covering is the parasitic barnacle. It takes residence under the abdominal flap of a small shore crab, the Smooth-Handed Crab, Pilumnopeus serratifrons. Because of the activities of the parasitic barnacle, which feeds off the living tissues of the crab, the male crab is castrated, and adopts a female-like form."

And this guy hopes it wasn't the parasitic kind he ran across.
 
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Zurp said:
A classic discussion I've had: is there an animal ("bugs" excluded) that would survive a terminal velocity impact with the ground? If so, what would be your guess? And it's cheating to say that birds can just fly away, without suffering the impact. Assume that any animal you use for this discussion is unconscious. A branch of this discussion has produced this question: which animal would produce the highest terminal velocity?
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How many times have the scummers survived crashing their hopes into the ground at terminal velocity? Three Loss Llloyd is getting paid pretty well despite all of their crashes...
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I wonder what would happen if you got those people who survived the free-fall from 20,000+ feet and made them generate offspring. Then, you took their offspring and made them make offspring together....and then again with their kids, and again and again and again and again.....

I bet in a few hundred years you'd have a "breed" of humans that could land on their feet from miles in the air. Now THAT would be sweet. When it was time to go home from work, you could just open up the window on the 27th floor and jump out. Or if you were flying to Colorado and could only get a ticket to LA, you could just open up the plane door and jump. We could have super humans.


As far as the fastest terminal velocity, I'd go with one of those giant tortoises that lives to be 200 years old. Those things must weigh a ton.
 
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Yertle said:
I bet in a few hundred years you'd have a "breed" of humans that could land on their feet from miles in the air. Now THAT would be sweet. When it was time to go home from work, you could just open up the window on the 27th floor and jump out. Or if you were flying to Colorado and could only get a ticket to LA, you could just open up the plane door and jump. We could have super humans.
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Yertle said:
I wonder what would happen if you got those people who survived the free-fall from 20,000+ feet and made them generate offspring. Then, you took their offspring and made them make offspring together....and then again with their kids, and again and again and again and again.....
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I can see it now: you lock these survivors in little prison cells and you yell, "Breed!! Breed, damn you!!! GENERATE SOME OFFSPRING, OR SO HELP ME!!!!!"

You might have to start genetically engineering a way for people to survive being landed on. That would suck to have some dude in a plane to LA jump out and land on you in Denver. Or, maybe it's like in Happy Gilmore: "He shouldn't have been standing there."
 
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