I just spoke of 'math' in the post above. I'll elaborate in a traditional ranting way.
Using these little snippets here as my measurement bases:
themightyjello
[ "The more compact and dense the object, the higher its terminal velocity will be. Typical examples are the following: raindrop, 25 ft/s,
human being, 250 ft/s." 76 m/s ]
[ "
The terminal velocity of a falling human being with arms and legs outstretched is about 120 miles per hour (192 km per hour) - slower than a lead balloon, but a good deal faster than a feather!" 53 m/s ]
Max speed:
- Viper :: 250 ft/s
- Vahn :: 176 ft/s
Meaning Vahn is moving 70.4% as fast as Viper at max speed, and Viper is moving 143.7% as fast as Vahn at max speed.
This is assuming both fighters have reached terminal velocity at the point of separation.Acceleration:
- Viper :: The force of gravity. His move would have slowed himself instantaneously but there is no continual force exerted upon him at this point to do so, so he will only accelerate downwards until terminal velocity is reached. His highest rate of acceleration will be immediate, and will eventually drop to 0 as he reaches 250 ft/s.
- Vahn :: Wind resistance. He more or less instantly dropped his max speed below what he was at. He's going to experience a sudden deceleration that will slowly drop to 0 as he reaches 176 ft/s.
Meaning that when we unpause, Viper will begin speeding up quickly, and Vahn will begin slowing down quickly. For Vahn to drop 29.6% of his speed, that would mean that the upwards force of air resistance acting upon him is that same 143.7% of gravity. 46.2 ft/s/s upwards initially.
SNAP.
That means that, by Viper's attestation of about 10 feet of distance between them, assuming Viper is still traveling at T.V.
(which we won't) Vahn would cover that, and 36.2 feet extra as Viper whipped straight past him, in the first second.
So let's look at this another way... *crunches numbers*
- 10 feet between them to start.
- Vahn's speed per second (roughly): 250 ft/s at 0, 203.8 ft/s at 1, and my numbers put it at 166.6 ft/s at second 2, which is below the max speed, which means that Vahn will reach 176 ft/s in just under 2 seconds.
- Now to work on Viper's speed. He did an air jump thing to slow himself, we'll assume that took half a second, mmkay? Very brief, somewhat effective, put some distance between them and slowed him up some.
For the first number, we'll start with Vahn's target speed here. Assume Viper drops roughly 30% of his speed from there (starting at T.V.) and slows 74 ft/s to the speed of 176 ft/s. We'll write that in as an estimation of 148 ft/s/s acceleration since it takes half a second. We'll estimate Viper's weight at... oh... 180 lbs. Converted to metric we have: 81.65 kg, and 45.11 m/s. This makes 3683.23 N of force required by that little jump.
According to a
calculation website (ironically enough, showing an example of the forces behind a car crash), this number is stated as 48.17 Tons of instantaneous force.
s**t man. s**t man. s**t man. That would ******** you up.
So... by numbers... even without having to calculate the
increasing speed by which Viper is falling, in order to buy himself 2 (maybe 3 for overtaking?) seconds he'd need to... ... ... ... I'm not going to calculate how many times that exceeds the capacity of human bones to support.
So again, the question comes down to: "How long before you hit the ground?"
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