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I am currently watching the Olympics right now, and I came to wondering:
What if a scientific study was done on how fast these Olympic dashers could go in a vacuum in a wind tunnel?
That is, give men such as Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, et cetera, a lightweight breathing apparatus and have them run the 100m dash in vacuum conditions.
How much faster do you think they could run? The current world record is 9.49 seconds. I think they could get as low at 7 seconds in a vacuum, "easily". Maybe even as low as 6.5. The human body is not especially aerodynamic and runners have to face a lot of wind resistance in order to reach the speeds they do. I do not think it is at all unreasonable that they could zip ahead far quicker without that.
Has anything like this been done in science?
What if a scientific study was done on how fast these Olympic dashers could go in a vacuum in a wind tunnel?
That is, give men such as Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, et cetera, a lightweight breathing apparatus and have them run the 100m dash in vacuum conditions.
How much faster do you think they could run? The current world record is 9.49 seconds. I think they could get as low at 7 seconds in a vacuum, "easily". Maybe even as low as 6.5. The human body is not especially aerodynamic and runners have to face a lot of wind resistance in order to reach the speeds they do. I do not think it is at all unreasonable that they could zip ahead far quicker without that.
Has anything like this been done in science?