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Not a Physics question just a true story! I'm now the "Senior Technical Manger/Advisory/Bail You Out Go To Guy". I've hired all of these Hercules built types and there is one thing they all know of me is that I will tunnel rat when needed and do any task I would ask of them if needed. I get laughed at all in fun a lot, Mutt & Jeff looking crew if I'm at the job site! Funny how they are all laid back while I run all over town and office like a "Speedy Gonzales"! I do know this, I Could not ask for a better crew!

Originally Posted by JBM1000

Had an incident last week, leaving a customers house the driveway was one of those painted tan color type covering over concrete. It was slicker than snot! A newly hired co partner journeyman was getting his orientation week in with me. I find myself doing the slam-bam jig to face myself and would have broken my check bone, nose, shoulder, thumb, and who knows what else. This co journeyman is beyond a XXX size shirt and 6'3 or more and not an ounce of fat, built like Hercules. I came to a dead stop about 1/2" air-gap from my ball cap hat bill. He picked me up like a toothpick to him and said J.B. "I got ya back, its all good"! Needless to say my eyeballs were looking side to side while thinking how did this guy move that quick like smooth butter and pull that one off?!!!

this makes me laugh everytime i picture it. it reminds me of my friends step dad. he is round and short and 400 plus. one day we were walking to his parts shed just looking straight and talking. next thing i know i turned to look at him and he was gone. he had slipped on the ice 50 feet back and looked like a turtle on his back. it's one of those things, you shouldn't laugh but can't help but laugh hard. sorry, didn't mean to hijack.

Originally Posted by JBM1000

........This co journeyman is beyond a XXX size shirt and 6'3 or more and not an ounce of fat, built like Hercules.......

Awwww shucks, you didn't have to say that about me.


(yeah right)

Originally Posted by billygoat22

or 9.82 m/s squared, if you like metric.

Heck, I still catch myself saying "Centigrade" and "Megacycles."

or 9.82 m/s squared, if you like metric.

Originally Posted by Andy Schoen

Acceleration due to gravity, not speed.

...which is what I thought he meant, therefore the caveat, "the answer might be".

Originally Posted by timebuilder

Here I thought you were asking a physics question, to which the answer might be 32 feet per second, per second.

Acceleration due to gravity, not speed.

Originally Posted by JBM1000

Had an incident last week, leaving a customers house the driveway was one of those painted tan color type covering over concrete. It was slicker than snot! A newly hired co partner journeyman was getting his orientation week in with me. I find myself doing the slam-bam jig to face myself and would have broken my check bone, nose, shoulder, thumb, and who knows what else. This co journeyman is beyond a XXX size shirt and 6'3 or more and not an ounce of fat, built like Hercules. I came to a dead stop about 1/2" air-gap from my ball cap hat bill. He picked me up like a toothpick to him and said J.B. "I got ya back, its all good"! Needless to say my eyeballs were looking side to side while thinking how did this guy move that quick like smooth butter and pull that one off?!!!

I think that kind of reaction comes from being a lineman. Not the electrical kind, lol! He probably saw you start to go, and had time to react before you began your actual descent.

Here I thought you were asking a physics question, to which the answer might be 32 feet per second, per second.

Speed Of Gravity!

Had an incident last week, leaving a customers house the driveway was one of those painted tan color type covering over concrete. It was slicker than snot! A newly hired co partner journeyman was getting his orientation week in with me. I find myself doing the slam-bam jig to face myself and would have broken my check bone, nose, shoulder, thumb, and who knows what else. This co journeyman is beyond a XXX size shirt and 6'3 or more and not an ounce of fat, built like Hercules. I came to a dead stop about 1/2" air-gap from my ball cap hat bill. He picked me up like a toothpick to him and said J.B. "I got ya back, its all good"! Needless to say my eyeballs were looking side to side while thinking how did this guy move that quick like smooth butter and pull that one off?!!!