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Falling

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When You're Falling, You Don't See in Slow Motion

It's not equivalent to the way a slow motion camera would work. Even though people feel like it's going in slow motion, it's something more interesting than that. The right answer, if they'd had a stopwatch, just under three seconds. But what people would say? How long, when you were falling, how long did it work? Ten seconds. It fell. It felt like a time was stopped.

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