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Obviously the winners in this game would be those who damage their iPhones by throwing them from 1000 ft buildings. :)
by Geee 16y ago
Obviously the winners in this game would be those who damage their iPhones by throwing them from 1000 ft buildings. :)
- rbanffy 16y agoYou can also put it in orbit.
- DEinspanjer 16y agoI was thinking that you might be able to win it by taking your phone on the vomit comet. While considering that though, I'm actually not sure that the accelerometer would be able to notice 0-g after equilibrium, would it?
- listrophy 16y agoIndeed, without going into orbit, a vomit comet would be the best. Even if you dropped the phone from the tallest building (assuming it would be tall enough, which it isn't), the phone would soon register more-than-microgravity acceleration due to air resistance. The phone will most definitely notice 0-g after "equilibrium." Pretty much at all times (unless being accelerated by your hand or your carelessness), the iPhone registers a 1-g acceleration towards the ground... much like almost every other static accelerometer you can buy.
- Tichy 16y agoOr launch them from weather balloons.
- charlesju 16y agoOr perhaps something safer, like a roller coaster?
- cromulent 16y agoI think it would be easier, cheaper, and safer to throw yourself from a plane with the phone in your pocket. You'll get over a minute of freefall from most turbine aircraft.
- arethuza 16y agoYou can apparently get up to 30 seconds freefall on a big BASE jump: e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6X5tV3bGMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6X5tV3bGMc [I knew I needed an excuse to take up BASE jumping]
- tesseract 16y agoThat can't be free fall all the way. 30 seconds of free fall on Earth would be a 4410 meter drop, but the mountain in the video is only 2147m high.
- cromulent 16y ago4410 in 30 seconds is almost 9km in a minute, or about 540km/h at a constant speed. That's quite the terminal velocity - 200km/h would be normal for a human. How are you calculating this?
- tesseract 16y agoIf you've reached terminal velocity (which I agree, a human would) you aren't in free fall any more and your accelerometer will be reading 1g.