I had so much fun creating graphs for the Red Bull Stratos Space Jump calculation, that I figured I should make some more. Can you fall faster than terminal velocity? That is the question. Air ...

Raindrops have been caught breaking the speed limit. Using drizzle detectors, researchers discovered tiny raindrops falling more than 1.3 times as fast as terminal velocity, the speed at which air ...

Here is the scene: Some people have found an old starship at the top of a cliff. They want to get it flying and leave the planet. An engineer-types says, “We have to achieve terminal velocity in order ...