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>> I believe Julies Verne wrote a book around the idea of sending people to
>> the Moon by firing them [or rather, some kind of craft containing them]
>> out of a cannon.
>
> Yep, "De la Terre à la Lune"
No, I haven't read it. I just saw something about it on the Internet. ;-)
>> Terminal velocity, anyone?
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> If you went high enough to get terminal velocity on ground, you went too
> high for a circus.
>
> The trick for a circus is to fly long, not high. Air resistance is good
> for slowing the horizontal speed, and not too high is good for not too
> much vertical speed. A costum like the flying squirrel is a good one for
> human-cannon.
Yeah, that sounds about right...
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> The trick for a circus is to fly long, not high. Air resistance is good
> for slowing the horizontal speed, and not too high is good for not too
> much vertical speed.
Indeed, it's mainly the velocity perpendicular to what you land on
that's the problem, you can also have a downward slope to land on to
soften the impact...
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On 5/10/2012 9:04, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> On 5/10/2012 6:47 AM, James Holsenback wrote:
>> OK, thinking about joining the circus. I mean how hard can it be to get
>> shot out of a cannon. After all ... a cannon ball can do it?
>
> I guess the trick is doing it more than once.
"Wow! This is great!"
"Yeah, hot air balloon rides are fun."
"I'd like to try it without the balloon!"
"Try what? Plummeting? You could try it once, I guess."
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
"Don't panic. There's beans and filters
in the cabinet."
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