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Beware of falling Jedi
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Karohalva
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May '08
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Date Posted:
6/8 6:34pm
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Beware of falling Jedi
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Strilo
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How much does Samuel L. Jackson weigh? For a laugh, I want to calculate how long it took him to hit the ground after Palpy zapped him out the window.
Strilo edit: Welcome aboard! We have a PT Quick Questions thread just for this sort of thing. 
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LemmingLord
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6/8 6:42pm
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RE: Beware of falling Jedi
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Weight doesn't have anything to do with how long it would take him to hit the ground.
Gravity accelerates all objects equally. Of course wind resistence if going to be a factor, but SLJ is going to fall at about the same rate as anyone else of his build.
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6/8 6:54pm
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RE: Beware of falling Jedi
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It also depends on which way he fell. Coruscant is full of skybridges and walkways, and if he slips threw one of the empty spaces he could be socked by a speeder or fall for over an hour till he hits what remains of the original surface of Coruscant.
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zombie
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Date Posted:
6/8 7:11pm
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RE: Beware of falling Jedi
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LemmingLord posted:
Weight doesn't have anything to do with how long it would take him to hit the ground.
Gravity accelerates all objects equally. Of course wind resistence if going to be a factor, but SLJ is going to fall at about the same rate as anyone else of his build.
But weight does play a role in how quickly you hit that free-fall zone. If I drop a penny and an anvil the anvil will hit first because its weight pulled it into free-fall faster. Right? But in the case of Mace I guess the difference in time this would make is pretty minimal anyway.
I guess to know how long it took Mace to hit you'd have to know how far up the office was and what was actually below the window. Looking at the shot where his lightsaber get flung out there is an angled piece jutting out which he might have have hit on the way down, redirecting the arc of his fall. I don't know anything about math or physics though. I'm curious now, are there any sources that give how many storeys up the office is?
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JEDIGUNSHIP
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6/8 7:47pm
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RE: Beware of falling Jedi
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Depends on if his remains hit something on the way down and if his robes caused some drag, which would make it fall slower because of increased air resistance. However, that goes into a whole different castegory, and that is really not important to the topic.
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Sickboy65
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6/8 8:38pm
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RE: Beware of falling Jedi
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In order to figure out how long Mace falls, we would also have to know the acceleration due to gravity on Coruscant, which isn't likely the same as on Earth.
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