How is it that bugs take no fall damage?
In: Physics
Basically same way we don’t damage using parachutes. Some bugs have simply air friction and weight ratio that it’s like having a natural parachute at all times.
To a such bug, air is more like a liquid, so it falls through it like you would sink into a deep lake. Even if lake is super deep – like 15 stories deep, you still won’t crash the bottom of the lake in the end, water slows you down so much all the way.
Even though acceleration by gravity is same, water limits the speed you end up with (called terminal velocity) much more than air would. But if gravity was – 10 times stronger – say – on different a planet or whatever, you could totally splat to the bottom of such lake and water friction couldn’t overcome it enough to save you.
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