2006-08-11 07:43:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
no, they would become a mass of bones and flesh while all of the liquid would get suck from there body from the intense pressure of the fall
2006-08-11 20:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by mrtophat24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that you meant to ask, would they catch on fire due to falling through the atmosphere? The answer is no, because they would reach a terminal velocity much lower than that required to cause sufficient friction to burn up.
The reason spacecraft burn up upon atmospheric re-entry is because they already have a huge orbital velocity, something on the order of several thousands of miles per hour. Once they enter the atmosphere, this causes a tremendous amount of heat due to ram pressure (NOT friction) with the surrounding air. This also gradually slows the spacecraft down.
This is also the reason that meteors burn brightly enough to be visible. Small meteor-sized grains, i.e. rocks sufficiently large to become a meteor, enter the atmosphere on practically a constant basis, essentially every few seconds in any given location, which can be detected by the ionization trails they leave behind. But only a very few of them which have a large enough initial velocity will actually flare up enough from ram pressure to be seen as "shooting stars".
2006-08-11 08:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by stellarfirefly 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
BASE jumpers and parachutists don't burn up for the same reason that someone who jumped off of the Empire State Building wouldn't: terminal velocity achieved from such a jump is insufficient to generate enough friction or pressure to do so.
In short, it's no different than jumping out of a plane- with or without a parachute.
2006-08-11 10:12:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the empire state building does not go out of the atmosphere
2006-08-11 08:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by Robert B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the edge of the atmosphere is much higher, as in several miles. Only rockets returning from space re-enter the atmosphere. However, the person would still die from the impact, unless of course he had a parachute, as a recent jumper did (although the authorities caught him first).
2006-08-11 07:48:05 · answer #5 · answered by wcivils 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Now why wouldn't you also think that sky divers would catch on fire. Terminal velocity for a human body through air is about 120 miles per hour.
2006-08-11 07:49:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. They're not entering the atmosphere.
2006-08-11 07:48:31 · answer #7 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, and if they were out of the atmosphere then they would be dead....and you would have to be falling pretty fast to catch fire.
2006-08-11 07:49:55 · answer #8 · answered by friskygimp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if they were out of the atmosphere yes..choose another location..like space just outside the exosphere...
2006-08-11 08:18:52 · answer #9 · answered by Yogesh Uprety 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no gravity in space! how could they fall into the atmosphere?
2006-08-11 07:50:59 · answer #10 · answered by BRYAN w/a Y 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋