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the only flight you can do indefinitely, until physics sends the bill
means the act of moving downward through space under the pull of gravity, with nothing holding you up.
from From Old English 'feallan,' to drop or fail, with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of Dutch 'vallen' and German 'fallen.' The same word splits into many senses: a literal tumble, a decline ('the empire fell'), even a moral slip ('the Fall'). The 'falling' that means dropping and the 'falling' in 'falling in love' share this ancient verb — love, it seems, has always been framed as a loss of footing.
- terminal velocity
- a skydiver caps near 120 mph belly-down
- weightless trick
- freefall feels exactly like zero gravity
- cat law
- falling cats right themselves with zero spin to start
- survivor record
- woman fell 33,000 feet in 1972 and lived
- dream physics
- that jolt awake is called a hypnic jerk
niagara falls — 188 feet of water cascading between us and canada, 750,000 gallons per second
angel falls — world's highest waterfall at 3,212 feet in venezuela
base jumping — sport where people jump from cliffs like el capitan (3,000 feet) with parachutes