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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by sib on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @07:15PM (#14502314)
I thought that terminal velocity for a human on Earth was about 120 miles/h. Seems like Wolfram doesn't take that into account.

Just makes the horrifying fall even longer!

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by tintor on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @11:32PM (#14503542)
170 mph assumes no air resistance
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by sib on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:13PM (#14507560)
Yup, I understand that. My point was that that's not a very accurate assumption in the vicinity of El Capitan :)
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