redballooon ( @redballooon@lemm.ee ) English34•8 months agoHumans fly faster
IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) English15•8 months agoWith modern tech and ingenuity yes … much much faster.
But a naked human … fastest recorded running speed is 44.7 kph (27.7 mph) … but in flight, or free fall can reach a stabilized controlled terminal velocity of 193 kph (120 mph) and a maximum controlled streamlined terminal velocity of 500 kph (310 mph)
https://www.sciencefacts.net/terminal-velocity-of-a-human.html
butter ( @butter@midwest.social ) English6•8 months agoI bet a naked human is faster than a naked falcon
Depends on the temperature.
I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) English2•8 months agoAnd number of coconuts
don ( @don@lemm.ee ) English8•8 months agoWell yeah, we have bigger wings
SirDankbud ( @SirDankbud@lemmy.ca ) English21•8 months agoWell since they can’t reach that speed without being in the air, technically they’re the fastest animals OFF Earth.
DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) English25•8 months agoPlanets are typically understood to include the atmosphere.
You wouldn’t look at Jupiter and say, “well it’s not really that big, there’s just a bunch of a clouds in the way,” right?
So the peregrines are on Earth, but not on earth.
SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English3•8 months agoI wish we could see the center of Jupiter. Is there any land down there?
DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) English8•8 months agoThe Juno mission says “probably, but whatever is going on is weird af” and the current explanations are way above my head.
I think they still mostly assume there’s a rocky core, somewhere.
SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 months agoI wonder what magnitude of pressure exists on the surface, if there is such thing. It must be molten from the extreme pressure and gravity. Right?
Tlaloc_Temporal ( @Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ) English6•8 months agoHave you seen supercritical water and/or helium? The “surface” of Jupiter is probably supercritical hydrogen. I don’t know if there’s a sharp cutoff like Earth’s oceans or a gradual thickening, but it’s still only half the density of water. It’s possible to build a boat for that!
However, the pressure would be around half a million bar, or 500 times the pressure of the deepest part of the ocean. This is also 5× the pressure used to make synthetic diamods too, and probably about the same temperature too. If the boat had any grease left outside, it would be diamond grease at this point.
If you went further down to where the density increases to about the same as water at sea level, the pressure would quadruple to nearly the same as Earth’s core, and the temperature would be about the same too. At this pressure, there’s probably another indistinct boundary of metallic hydrogen, and if the boat has survived the ultra-high-pressure hydrogen embrittlement, the steel-liquifying temperatures, and diamond rain, this metallic hydrogen will almost certainly reduce it to a lump of novel metal hydrides.
SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English3•8 months agoThanks for the response! That was very helpful.
SirDankbud ( @SirDankbud@lemmy.ca ) English2•8 months agoSorry, didn’t realize I needed a /s for something so clearly sarcastic
DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) English3•8 months agoIf you knew the difference between Earth and earth your joke just sucked.
rhythmisaprancer ( @rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ) 17•8 months agoOne of the craziest interactions I have seen was when a Peregrine Falcon attacked a Canada Goose in flight. We were watching the goose fly up canyon and the peregrine must have thought it was too close to its nest or something. Only time I’ve heard a goose make a sound like that!!
👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English11•8 months agoIf we count diving then one of the animals that returned from orbital experiments would make the peregrine look like a sloth on ludes by comparison.
wildginger ( @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ) English5•8 months agoNah, have to be without equipment since 1998, and the whole “rocket snail” incident. Banned any support items after that
gamermanh ( @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•8 months agoThat’s the fastest animal above earth, silly
Uncle ( @UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ) English6•8 months agoI have a pair that nest just behind me every year. Its awesome watching them hunt.
TeacherIsMe ( @TeacherIsMe@lemmy.ml ) English1•8 months agoJust try this and see what happens…
Straight to IP gulag.
TeacherIsMe ( @TeacherIsMe@lemmy.ml ) English5•8 months agoWikipedia has matured a lot. They are serious over there.