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3 days agoTried looking it up but I’m not finding any academic research on the drag coefficient of hair as a property of its length.
I do know that drag scales with cross sectional area, but I imagine it would require a very voluminous afro to function as a parachute.
Solving the drag equation for velocity and assuming* a drag coefficient around .5, then for a 80kg person to be slowed to a 7m/s parachute landing speed they’d need a 'fro roughly 10.5 feet in diameter.
*this assumption is most definitely wrong, but close enough for humorous purposes.
I just say that I do, but I actually didn’t touch Copilot for so long that my license expired. XD