I got to thinking last night that theoretically, with enough hair, the air resistance would slow you down so that your terminal velocity would be low enough to land unharmed. How long would it need to be? How would one go about calculating this?

I assume you need some kind of drag coefficient and a density for hair to start with. Not sure where to find that information.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I was thinking just freely streaming behind you. I am not sure how this equation accounts for an object that’s incredibly long and thin but I feel confident that the longer it gets, the more drag there is, even if not much more.

    I realize the answer might require impossibly long hair but that’s part of why I asked. I want to know just how impossible.