One time I was two seconds old altogether. Do you realize if someone gave you a present for each second you live, you wouldn’t get the chance to enjoy one or opening it if it’s wrapped before being given another one?
Scaling from the diagram, and assuming Peter’s 1.75m tall, that cliff’s about 13.75m tall, so free fall for about 1.7 seconds, impact velocity 59km/h (37mph). Ouch.
I’ve always wondered that if we did not have example of flying, like birds and insects, if we would have ever even thought about inventing the airplane.
BC is about 108 pixels tall. The cliff (BC’s feet to top) is about 779 pixels. If we assume he is 5 feet tall, that makes the cliff 36.1 feet, and a simple fall take 1.50 seconds. For other heights, at 6 feet, 1.64 seconds, at 4.5 feet, 1.42 seconds, and at 4 feet 1.34 seconds. This makes it reasonably somewhere between 1 1/3 and 1 1/2 seconds, significantly more than one second.
And this doesn’t take into account that the wings would have helped somewhat. I suspect the “flight” was more than 2 seconds.
dvandom about 2 months ago
He was in a highly eccentric orbit.
Imagine about 2 months ago
Now you have to work on the landing.
oldthang about 2 months ago
I hear a “Beep, Beep!” coming from up on top.
hariseldon59 about 2 months ago
Time to stop buying from Acme.
DaveG1960 about 2 months ago
It’s like me when I go swimming. It’s called the “Anchor” stroke…..
oddhumor about 2 months ago
That wasn’t flying. It was falling with style.
Mediatech about 2 months ago
Stupid gravity
jasonsnakelover about 2 months ago
One time I was two seconds old altogether. Do you realize if someone gave you a present for each second you live, you wouldn’t get the chance to enjoy one or opening it if it’s wrapped before being given another one?
yoey1957 about 2 months ago
Dang! I’ll bet he already sold the bike shop!
electricshadow Premium Member about 2 months ago
Replace them with Carmen and Winslow, and you’ve got a “Prickly City” strip.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 2 months ago
On the National Geographic site, they have a story with the title:
Why are these emperor penguin chicks jumping from a 50-foot cliff?
They are jumping from an ice floe to the ocean, but it is still quite a leap!
scote1379 Premium Member about 2 months ago
FACEPLANT !!! Low points for allowing the ground to Smack you in the face ! lol
ladykat about 2 months ago
I don’t think that’s flying.
Just-me about 2 months ago
Short flight followed by a rough, really rough landing.
Meg: Cute as a Raccoon about 2 months ago
“Controlled” flight is the hard part.
My First Premium Member about 2 months ago
Another video for “Fail Army”.
Man of the Woods about 2 months ago
Falling is flying until you hit the ground.
rockyridge1977 about 2 months ago
Nice to have a honest record keeper!!!!!
sandpiper about 2 months ago
He’ll learn from that. What he’ll learn, I don’t know, but he will learn.
rshive about 2 months ago
If you weren’t busy screaming, you could have tried flapping.
ChessPirate about 2 months ago
“Watch out for that first step, it’s a LuLuuuuuu…”
The Fly Hunter about 2 months ago
Falling sideways. Gravity was much different in the old days.
preacherman Premium Member about 2 months ago
But, you had a great one point landing.
mindjob about 2 months ago
The Wright brothers earliest known ancestor
Chazz about 2 months ago
Try it again without flapping your arms. Two feet further and same result.
Sushi_cuber(comic critic) Premium Member about 2 months ago
its good, it provides a single sentence that wouldn’t be funny without the art, 9/10, its missing a key touch, which is the aspect of more backround.
blah_duh about 2 months ago
So, I’m assuming the cliff is 32 feet up.
Lablubber about 2 months ago
“There is an art, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” – Douglas Adams
Imagine about 2 months ago
He flew straight into the ground.
stamps about 2 months ago
In Earth’s gravity, you fall 16 feet in the first second.
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member about 2 months ago
What did Buzz Lightyear call it? Falling with style?
cactusbob333 about 2 months ago
I think my computer went into panoramic mode. I try to fix.
DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago
FLUGTAG! Look it up — Red Bull sponsors it; lots of fun and sometimes flying.
dpatrickryan Premium Member about 2 months ago
Scaling from the diagram, and assuming Peter’s 1.75m tall, that cliff’s about 13.75m tall, so free fall for about 1.7 seconds, impact velocity 59km/h (37mph). Ouch.
eddi-TBH about 2 months ago
Once the wings crumple, it’s all downhill.
montylc2001 about 2 months ago
I’ve always wondered that if we did not have example of flying, like birds and insects, if we would have ever even thought about inventing the airplane.
EXCALABUR about 2 months ago
And then you went SPLAT!
brick10 about 2 months ago
Or plummeted for 1 second.
divad27182 about 2 months ago
So I decided to do the math.
BC is about 108 pixels tall. The cliff (BC’s feet to top) is about 779 pixels. If we assume he is 5 feet tall, that makes the cliff 36.1 feet, and a simple fall take 1.50 seconds. For other heights, at 6 feet, 1.64 seconds, at 4.5 feet, 1.42 seconds, and at 4 feet 1.34 seconds. This makes it reasonably somewhere between 1 1/3 and 1 1/2 seconds, significantly more than one second.
And this doesn’t take into account that the wings would have helped somewhat. I suspect the “flight” was more than 2 seconds.