Why isn’t a penny dropped from space able to kill you?
In: Physics
Because a penny is primarily made of two flat sides, those sides are always more likely to be facing downward than the edge. The flat edges act like a parachute to slow the penny down as it falls, and falling all the way through the atmosphere with that much drag would cause the penny to break up into tiny pieces of copper and zinc far before it hit the ground.
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