If you're belly flapping, right, you are hitting not only a quickly, you're stopping really fast. So every single spot on your skin gets smacked. At what point does the water itself offer enough resistance to just break you in half or like bust yor bones up or en? There's got to be a point where now water becomes as hard as cement. Well, the golings a a bridge. People don't survive jumping off that bridge, right? Right? It's, it's aa surface effect, as it turns out, basically the way materials work. Because you're going from an a low density into high density. Even if that a water is liquid
How fast does cheese roll down a hill? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly walk us through the physics behind the weirdest sports: cheese rolling, belly flopping, face slapping and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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