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"Silly question."

Ok say you're standing in a train. It's going..... oh I dunno 100mph.
For no reason what so ever you decide to jump up in the air.

Now.

Will you land in the same spot you jumped up from?

I don't have an answer, I actually want to know.

Seeing it would take about a second and a half for your brain to tell the right parts to jump, you would land in the spot you jumped from, but it would be a few metres further than where you thought it would be.

A bit like when i thought about what would happen if you shot a bullet whilst on a train.

All the answers are on howstuffworks.com if you were wondering about the bullet thing.

Ingenium Bartender wrote:
> On top of the train, as soon as you leave the surface, you'll have
> 100mph of wind resistance slowing you down

Though this does not apply in the UK. Not because the laws of physics are different here, but because our trains rarely achieve such a velocity, due to damages rails, old rolling stock, and/or the wrong type of leaves on the line.

Goatboy wrote:

> It shall be known as "The Mammary Massacre", and everyone
> died happy.

except you, who died thinking of Udders

Well, George Bush has already taken that role ;)

With boobs.

Attack Boobs with nipple-lasers. Massive ones, a bit like the bouncing-ball from The Prisoner.

It shall be known as "The Mammary Massacre", and everyone died happy.

Expletive Deleted wrote:
> That sounds like the talk of a guy who wants to take over the world.

Actually, I don't "want" to. But by God, somebody has to do it.

Ingenium Bartender wrote:

> Physics can be so interesting. I'm still waiting for the day when
> someone can invent something that counters or nullifies air resistance
> around an object.
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That sounds like the talk of a guy who wants to take over the world.

Freaky eh?

Wow, I was thinking that too!