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Old 10-17-2012, 09:05 AM   #12
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I just want to make sure what it is we're disagreeing about. Are you saying that if you took 2 guys, both of them jumping from the same altitude, but one is doing it within the normal atmosphere while the other is doing it inside some kind of vacuum tube, that the first guy would feel the jump while the other wouldn't?
They would both feel the same initial sensation of falling or weightlessness. For the guy in the vacuum, that would persist. For the one in the atmosphere, he'd slowly transition back to "weighted" as air resistance started slowing his acceleration.
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