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Question: Can I throw a squirrel faster than its terminal velocity? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago

Terminal velocity isn't the fastest that an object can travel. It's just the speed at which air resistance and gravity reach an equilibrium. So it's 100% possible to accelerate something past its terminal velocity. Whether you're capable of hurtling a pissed off ball of teeth and claws past that threshold is more a question of your abilities than it is of physics.

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