if i dropped a whale and a mouse from 50,000 feet in the air to a concrete landing – I do want to be clear that, ethically, I’m against doing this, but let’s say I wasn’t – would the mouse or the whale take the most damage? like, percentage wise?
The whale by a huge margin. The whale would absolutely, 100% die and be splattered all over.
The mouse might survive.
Both would have reached terminal velocity, which depends on mass and surface area – and a whale has much larger values than a mouse for both of those 🙂
Terminal Velocity: once you reach this speed, you don’t get any faster. Mice terminal velocity is very low, and whales is very high.
From: https://www.theifod.com/can-a-mouse-survive-a-fall-from-a-high-rise/
An average mouse weighs a mere 25 grams (0.05lbs) and has a surface area of 78 sq cm. That results in a mouse’s terminal velocity being about 25 ft/sec which is about the speed a skydiver falls with an open parachute. Compare that to a human skydiver whose terminal velocity is about 170 ft/sec prior to the parachute opening.
What if as well as the whale we also drop a houseplant
That would be very improbable.
Oh no, not again.
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