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Old 10th March 2014 | 06:14
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A Squared
 
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Originally Posted by compressor stall
An argument developed off topic in the Malaysian thread about the physics of falling objects. It was off topic so was mostly deleted.

I and one other were taken to task by Skipness One Echo and others for stating that objects of the same size but different densities (eg a basketball and an identical one filled with concrete) would not hit the ground at the same time, dropped from say 35000 feet in an atmosphere.

Discuss.
Unless you're misrepresenting the discussion (and I have n reason to believe that you are, just covering that possibility) Skippiness 1 E hasn't a clue what he's talking about.
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