Terminal velocity sounds like deadly force, but it's actually another cool point to consider about how marvelously our world works. My crazy thank-you about it? I keep imagining anything like hailstorms or even raindrops would be somewhat more...painful without those air molecules and low pressure/high pressure influences creating drag to slow things down. Here's the video that LV suggested. Disclaimer: obviously a very secular Youtube channel. I have no control over the ads or suggested videos that pop up. Yeah, robot weirdos, I am talking about you! Disregard and hit the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IZsfzDS4s (again, cut and paste in your browser if it doesn't highlight the link. )
and here's the levitating slinky.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/09/11/160933582/the-miracle-of-the-levitating-slinky
Hopefully I can get out our own levitating slinky shots up soon!
Next up: Bernoulli and fluid forces! Can you hover a ping-pong ball over a hairdryer?
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