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thenewgreen  ·  3898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did Norwegian a skydiver film a meteorite?

I think the syntax of your post is jumbled. I watched the video and I immediately thought the same thing, it was likely the other diver dropping it. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right, unfortunately. That said, would it have had such a quicker velocity than them if it were dropped by the other jumper?





mk  ·  3898 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    That said, would it have had such a quicker velocity than them if it were dropped by the other jumper?

Yes it should, since it has a higher density. If his buddy flattened out, it would drop faster.

thenewgreen  ·  3898 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True, plus the other jumper could have intentionally been falling faster than the jumper with the camera when he let go of the rock.

If it is a hoax, it's a bizarre one to conceive.

smoorman1024  ·  3897 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk, thenewgreen you really think it was a hoax? I didn't even consider that when I watched it initially?

OK after looking at the statistics of how many meteorite falls their have ever been I'm much more convinced that this could've been a hoax. Meteorite Fall Statistics

That said, they sent a search party to the woods after they got down. So if they do find something down there... well then this was one of the most amazing things that have probably ever happened by chance.

mk  ·  3897 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, as much as I would like to believe it, the far simpler explanation is that they dropped the rock. I'm surprised the geologist wasn't more skeptical.

smoorman1024  ·  3895 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean he's a geologist. I'd be pretty easily excitable too if the timeframe of everything I studied was in the tens of thousands of years.