Unacceptability Just Plain False: The Role Of Social Media

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Unacceptability just plain false

I think we hear arguments every day from the press, as well as social media that we know are just plain false, their arguments are totally unacceptable. For example as a child growing up we were always told that if you drop the penny off the Empire State building and a hit a bystander walking by that it would kill them due to terminal velocity, this just simply isn’t true pennies way about 1 g and their flattened circular which means they’re not very aerodynamic so as they tumbled down they would flip and turn in the air thus slowing their velocity down to around 105 km is when do much damage someone walking beneath them and feel more like someone flicked them in the head with their finger annoying but far

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