B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 10, 2024

He was in a highly eccentric orbit.

Now you have to work on the landing.

I hear a “Beep, Beep!” coming from up on top.

Time to stop buying from Acme.

It’s like me when I go swimming. It’s called the “Anchor” stroke…..

That wasn’t flying. It was falling with style.

Stupid gravity

Dang! I’ll bet he already sold the bike shop!

Replace them with Carmen and Winslow, and you’ve got a “Prickly City” strip.

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!

FACEPLANT !!! Low points for allowing the ground to Smack you in the face ! lol

I don’t think that’s flying.

Short flight followed by a rough, really rough landing.

“Controlled” flight is the hard part.

Another video for “Fail Army”.

Falling is flying until you hit the ground.

Nice to have a honest record keeper!!!!!

He’ll learn from that. What he’ll learn, I don’t know, but he will learn.

If you weren’t busy screaming, you could have tried flapping.

“Watch out for that first step, it’s a LuLuuuuuu…”

Falling sideways. Gravity was much different in the old days.

But, you had a great one point landing.

The Wright brothers earliest known ancestor

Try it again without flapping your arms. Two feet further and same result.

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.

So, I’m assuming the cliff is 32 feet up.

“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

He flew straight into the ground.

In Earth’s gravity, you fall 16 feet in the first second.

What did Buzz Lightyear call it? Falling with style?

I think my computer went into panoramic mode. I try to fix.

FLUGTAG! Look it up — Red Bull sponsors it; lots of fun and sometimes flying.

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.

Once the wings crumple, it’s all downhill.

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.

And then you went SPLAT!

Or plummeted for 1 second.

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.