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The bowling ball isn’t falling to the earth faster. The higher perceived acceleration is due to the earth falling toward the bowling ball.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social
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    13 days ago

    An average bowling ball is 8.5 inches in diameter, giving it a cross sectional surface area of roughly 60 sq in. Restricting ourselves to feathers made by non-human animals, the longest feather measured was on a Yokohama chicken at 34 feet / 400+ inches. I can’t find the width of the feather, but it’s still likely it outdoes an average bowling ball.

    • BB84@mander.xyzOP
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      13 days ago

      That is one very impressive feather.

      Restricting ourselves to feathers made by non-human animals

      🤔🤔🤔