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by Tade0 1490 days ago
> They say knowing is half the battle... not in psychology.

I've felt this so many times that I gave it a name: "the falling physicist problem".

A physicist falling without a parachute from the very top of the troposphere knows, that his terminal velocity is around 50m/s and was reached via gravity pulling him towards the ground.

Nevertheless he's going to go splat the same way anyone else would, because sometimes knowing is just not enough.