What does terminal Velocity mean?

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Bosf
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
Sorry i need translation.The dictionary has more translation than one.
First is like : Deadly
Second is like : Endly

Terminal Velocity mean-you can't be faster,
Terminal Velocity mean-When you hit gorund you die.

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youme
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
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Terminal velocity is what happens when you jump out of an areoplane...

You fall and accellerate untill eventually you reach a point where you will accellerate no more (due to wind resistance and other things) and that is called terminal velocity.

It works with portal because you can reach it using ceiling and floor portals, then if you were to hit the ground you would probably die or at very least be critically injured.

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msleeper
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
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Terminal velocity is the speed at which an object can no longer fall any faster, where the force of gravity matches the force of wind resistance.
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Ricotez
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
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In other words, not a velocity with which to hit the ground. One can use a parachute to lower this velocity, though Chell got these nice things on her legs that make her survive any drop like a cat.
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youme
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
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Ricotez wrote:
In other words, not a velocity with which to hit the ground. One can use a parachute to lower this velocity, though Chell got these nice things on her legs that make her survive any drop like a cat.

Cats always land on their feet, toast always lands butterside down, what happens if you butter a cats back?

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rellikpd
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
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youme wrote:
Cats always land on their feet, toast always lands butterside down, what happens if you butter a cats back?

the world ends. but you would have to toast the cat first.

but interestingly enough, a cat thrown out of a 7 story window will have a greater chance of living than one thrown out of a 3 story window....
why? it has a greater chance to manuever itself with the 4 extra stories.. out of a 3 story window by the time it reallizes WTF is going on. it will have landed. badly. and probly died.

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msleeper
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
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youme wrote:
Cats always land on their feet, toast always lands butterside down, what happens if you butter a cats back?

Old joke is old, in before someone posts that retarded gif.

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DelphiAegis
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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Actually, due to the way that toast is generally dropped (I.E. pushed off the edge of a counter), the rotational force applied to it gives it just enough spin to land top side DOWN. Butter your toast and flip it upside down on the plate, then push it off the counter onto the ground. It shall land butter side up.

Of note: Just taking into account rotational forces (I.E., no air resistance or airfoil'ing), a counter would have to be 10 feet off the ground in order for the toast to rotate once completely and land butter side up if pushed off the counter butter side up.

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taco
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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What if the counter is traveling at terminal velocity and the floor is made of cats?
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Beer-Me
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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13 seconds of freefall = terminal velocity. (I.e, if you jump out of an aeroplane with no parachute, after 13 seconds you are going the fastest you will go.)
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msleeper
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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taco wrote:
What if the counter is traveling at terminal velocity and the floor is made of cats?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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NykO18
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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msleeper wrote:
Old joke is old, in before someone posts that retarded gif.

Sorry but, you asked for it.
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rellikpd
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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Bosf wrote:
Sorry i need translation.The dictionary has more translation than one.
First is like : Deadly
Second is like : Endly

Terminal Velocity mean-you can't be faster,
Terminal Velocity mean-When you hit gorund you die.

Terminal Velocity means: a 1994 action movie starring Charlie Sheen as a daredevil skydiver who becomes mixed up with Russian spies.

aka: BESTEST MOVIE FOREVER!

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youme
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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NykO18 wrote:
Sorry but, you asked for it.
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/im ... _swirl.gif

:O I had no idea this had actually been done before!
Some people have definatly thought about it too much

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msleeper
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Posted Feb 26, 2008
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