RE: How fast does a rain drop, drop

["Mark Kifer" <spudsrus@webzone.net>]

G'day Andrew and similar mathematical physics persons...

NOW,  I'm certainly no mathematician, but you posed a question that go me
thinking?  If I remember correctly, terminal velocity of a falling object
(from sky diving days long past) is about 180 feet per second.  Ergo,  x 60
seconds, x 60 minutes, divided by number of feet per mile (about 1,580
right?)  That would put your speeding rain drop at 410.13 mph!!  Thank God
their not the size of watermelons!!  Water being 8.5 pounds per gallon, and
of average watermelon of the 3 gallon size?  It would be something like 25.5
pounds smacking the top of your head at 410 mph!!!  GEEZ!  A single direct
hit would drive you into the ground faster than smacking a 20-D anchor nail,
into a straw bale!!  Two rain drop hits, and you'd be plum outta sight!
And we haven't even addressed the soft water verses hard water issues!
Can't wait for R.T. to do the metric conversion on that all? It will sound
to be a little slower, but a lot heavier, I'll bet....   Maybe he can krunch
'em numbers, whilst the rest of us Mericans is watching the Superbowl
tomorrow?

Mark Kifer

"Spuds"

Post Script:  I did earn my degree from the Jethro Bodine school of High
Ciperin' for what it's worth?