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This iPhone fell out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Terminal velocity: It can only fall so fast, no matter what. Objects don't continue accelerating faster and faster. At some point, they're going as fast as they can go given conditions.

In other words, there may be do difference in dropping it out a 3-story window, 16,000 feet, or 120,000 feet.