Re: MOUNTAIN DEW / Free fall?

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 20:07 3/17/98 -0600, you wrote:
>

> While skydivers refer to their situation as "free fall," they are actually
> in a state of "fully supported fall." ... The atmosphere supports them as
fully as if they were
> floating in a swimming pool.  Hence, anything they pour from a can will
> accelerate relative to them, and behave just as it would if they were
> pouring it on earth's surface, so I think the commercial is accurate in
> that respect. 
>
> A. R. Marlow  

I can just imagine an experimental verification.
Point a shopvac nozzle upwards ( not quite a 120 mph blast but still)

then pour a can of coke into the efflux.
(Rather you than me!   :-)

Whatcott    Altus