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- Vindicator2718, on 09/26/2008, -1/+34Don't drink and dive.
- inactive, on 09/26/2008, -2/+25In Soviet Russia, sky dives you!
- DforSpiD, on 09/26/2008, -3/+26In Soviet Russia, face bottles you!
- starskii, on 09/25/2008, -0/+22That booze he's drinking was previously illegal, must be good stuff!
- SitPoMk, on 09/26/2008, -4/+21The next person to make an In Soviet Russia joke gets a bottle to the face
- abarysh2, on 09/25/2008, -1/+15russians don't like being empty-handed. ever.
- GregLoire, on 09/26/2008, -0/+13No, that's exactly how it would be. The wind resistance while skydiving causes you to hit terminal velocity, while anything not subject to wind resistance would continue accelerating toward the ground. If you were able to keep the wind from blowing the liquid up in the air, you could drink it just fine AFTER the acceleration phase of the dive had ended and you hit terminal velocity.
I've actually been skydiving before, and at first it felt like going down a rollercoaster -- I thought my organs were going to be hurled out my mouth. But once I hit terminal velocity and my organs continued accelerating toward the ground without wind resistance, my stomach felt just like being on the ground. The same principle applies to liquid in a bottle.
Falling during a skydive is NOT the same as floating in a space shuttle. You're thinking of a space shuttle scenario, where you're correct that drinking the fluid would be quite difficult. But when you're kept at a constant speed by a force NOT applied to the liquid (wind), then drinking would not be difficult.
Sorry to repeat myself so much, but it seems that you're being dugg up by people who don't understand physics. - gnu611, on 09/26/2008, -0/+13Hey, watch yourself, Sarah Palin can see you from her house!
- EmperorPsiblade, on 09/26/2008, -1/+12Those crazy Russians.
- lougoose, on 09/26/2008, -0/+11Bad time to pass out.
- inactive, on 09/26/2008, -3/+13In Soviet Russia, spirits swig you.
- ALPHABETlQUE, on 02/01/2009, -2/+10He had to be Russian. Had to be.
- InvisibleInk, on 09/26/2008, -0/+8Cheers!
- feliks2, on 09/26/2008, -0/+7Совсем они охуели.
- nullcodes, on 09/26/2008, -0/+6Sure, while floating in some contraption. Although he's a skydiver, he didn't do it WHILE skydiving.
Only an Irishman would do it will skydiving, in fact I heard it's a requirement just to apply for citizenship. - screensnot, on 09/26/2008, -0/+6Too bad you don't know much about physics, or have never been sky-diving.
Once you reach terminal velocity, you are back to 1G. Any liquid you happen to be carrying in a bottle will pour as normal.
You probably also wonder how stewardesses pour drinks on an airplane, don't you? - feliks2, on 09/26/2008, -1/+7Wow, both of these seem worse than what even google translate would spit out.
Translation: We will (third person singular, male) bury (imperative, or similar) you (also wrong tense). - fishpicker, on 09/26/2008, -3/+9Swigging spirits from a bottle while hovering in a 120mph wind - it is something only a Russian would attempt. - not likely
Swigging spirits from a bottle while hovering in a 120mph wind - it is something only a Russian would take credit for. - a bit more likely - wwbass, on 09/26/2008, -0/+5Samogan is ususally distilled from sugar, but can also be made from corn, potatoes and even plywood.
i love getting drunk off plywood - screensnot, on 09/26/2008, -1/+6I had no idea that skateboarding and driving an Indy car were so similar.
- ProfessorRamrod, on 09/26/2008, -0/+5This is why i love russians...good to party with
- SgtBulldog, on 09/26/2008, -1/+5And this is what Americans do while skydiving - http://www.nypost.com/seven/10032006/gossip/pagesi ...
- GregLoire, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3Insert the bottle INTO your mouth, safe from air currents. Problem solved.
You're just arguing for the sake of arguing, and you're not even right. You're just taking an unrelated principle and trying to apply it here based on your own flawed assumptions about the scenario that don't apply. Yes, you're correct that it would be very difficult to pour it into a cup. And no, that's not what they're doing. - hauntedchippy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3Please notice the lack of cup in the picture/article being discussed here.
- feliks2, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3"I like cheese. It good taste." Yeah, okay...
- jiggawatt, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Only real men take swigs of liquor made from Plywood!
- x060t, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Samogon is like vodka, but much stronger - over 70% instead of 40. Burns your throat and makes your eyes pop out. Hope there's someone around to carry that guy home :P
- compgeek, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2lordy that's gotta take some serious balls. even if only in a wind tunnel screw up in there and you'll slammed into the wall pretty damn hard.
dugg for bravado - t0ny, on 09/26/2008, -1/+3Я люблю сыр. Он хороший вкус.
- aflaks, on 09/26/2008, -1/+3smoke and fly!
- thegrantman, on 09/26/2008, -1/+3The Russian Air Force.
- hauntedchippy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Her telling him to ***** off is foreign policy experience!
- hauntedchippy, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2Surely the lesson is DO drink and dive? Seriously, what's the wor........well ok there's that. Drink and dive people!
- nullcodes, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1"even if only in a wind tunnel screw up in there and you'll slammed into the wall pretty damn hard"
Umm .. not really .. you will not be slammed at 120 mph if that's what you're implying.. I doubt it's even possible to break bones. - mufffin, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1damned russians on MY digg.
- charlietuna, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Excellent! Hot women, T-111 flavored Rum. Gotta love them Russkies!
- rebug, on 09/26/2008, -4/+5Riding in a wind tunnel is to skydiving what riding a skateboard is to driving in the Indy 500.
- parkermauney, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2Lame.
- secondfiddle, on 09/26/2008, -3/+4мы будет похороните вы
- hauntedchippy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Mr Science (if that is your real name), I refer you to the picture from the article where the skydiver has placed the spirit bottle into his mouth thus avoiding any possible difficulties arising from windy *****.
(Incidentally, "spherical 'x' in a vacuum" is an old joke among physicists lampooning the idea that none of their answers mean anything in the real world because of all the assumptions that are made.) - aflaks, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1the problem is that sky diving isn't just laying back and enjoying the scenery (it is that too) but there is also a lot of technical positioning and movement involved in staying in a controlled fall. If you are already drunk, you may miss all of the cues, screw up getting initial balance, or forget to pull the parachute. That is the real problem with drinking, though the fall only lasts 60 seconds before you pull, i doubt you'd even feel anything after a minute
- inactive, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2Я буду вас раздавить
- inactive, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1somewhere out there is humannouveau's math teacher shaking his head in disappointment.
- hauntedchippy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1That may be true for spherical vodka in a vacuum, but in real life terminal velocity helps the medicine go down.
- Garofoli, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1In Soviet Russia, Road fork you!!
- cmapes2, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1That can't happen to him, he's Russian, didn't you know?
- AricC, on 09/26/2008, -1/+2Outstanding!
- whoreable, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1Had to be Skyy vodka.
- warsongs7, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1It's aftershave.
- niklindg, on 09/27/2008, -0/+0Only russian could do that! :)
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