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by naming_the_user 556 days ago
Imagine if it were 10%, though. During the time it took for a droplet to fall 1 metre, you’d have 10cm of water on the floor.

I reckon it’d feel quite heavy.

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Rain falls at 9m/s, so in a second you'd almost completely fill that space with 900 liters. For the immediate area around you, imagine an olympic pool of water falling roughly every second.
According to NASA, terminal velocity for the largest droplets is ~10 m/s.

Which seems oddly close (in magnitude) to Earth gravitational acceleration (9.8 m/s^2).

Weird!