Informing about your death !

"The world's tallest building is 508m tall"

I came across this fact when I was just sifting out my all my books n random papers (cupboard of a to-be-engineer is full of Xerox pages, mostly crap). I read the fact again, and my brain resorted to thinking. As follows-

'If you fall from this above mentioned building, will u have enuf time to take out your cell and call your mom to inform her the catastrophe? Or call your the-loved-one and inform him/her that its all over, and say the last 'I love you…' before you hit the ground?'

Analysis:

(every analysis follows assumptions, that I'll key down later)

So,

1. To make this analysis, we need to find out the terminal velocity, I had to stretch my memory lane back to the days at Lakhakar's, plus some phone calls later, it was decided that terminal velocity for human with limbs outstretched is about 55.6m/s. (the amount of research that went into coming up with this blog is enormous. ;)
2. so, the body accelerates to this speed from 0 m/s at 9.8m/s/s (metres per second square), we assume. Time taken to reach terminal velocity from rest turns out to be a shade less than 5.7 seconds. (infamous Newton's Laws of motion)
3. and distance descended during this time is 160.6m, assuming, tho, that you don't hit the sides on your way to death :P
4. total time you take to hit the ground or so to say, to meet death is 5.7 + 6.27 = 11.9seconds.
5. is this time enuf to say, to your loved one, specifically that, "I'm falling from world's tallest building. I love you. Goodbye." -- assuming u speak 3 words per second?

The answer is Yes!

(You can test this one by phoning your loved one from the ground, saying these things, and timing yourself, to check out if it's possible. Ofcourse, do call them back to reassure them)

WARNING: You probably wont have time to text an sms.

Assumptions made:

1. terminal velocity,
2. the value of 'g'=9.8m/s/s,
3. you don't hit the sides on the way down,
4. the number is assigned to some speed dial key, n u press the correct key.
5. you press the key the moment you fall,
6. the recipient receives the phone at the first ring itself. `
7. The network coverage is great. (MOST IMP. ASSUMPTION)

Time it would take to hit the ground if you jump from---

-Eiffel tower(300m) : 7.7s
-Empire state building (381m) : 9.16s
-Mount Everest (8848m) : 2min 42s
-The depth of Mariana Trench(10924m) : 3min 19s

I guess three min is long enuf for death by heart failure than by hitting the ground.

Now, Wonder if Mount Everest and Mariana Trench were next to each other, the depth of fall from Mount Everest into the trench would be about 6mins and distance of about- 19772m.

Hehe!

"Oh shut it, let me sort out my books n arrange the cupboard…" says my brain after exploring those equations and those goddamn values . . .

Goodnight/day.

Candid Confessions....

There were certain beliefs/principles/ideas I used to believe in when I was very young.
It was very difficult to convince my brain and persuade it to let me blog it because one part, the merrier, knew how juvenile it was and the other, rather mature, had full conviction of its foolishness. : ) the latter always got the better of me only till today afternoon when I finally made the former more powerful.

These were really my misconceptions and I’m sure everybody in life must’ve had one, if not so many.

--If we light a candle from a flaming candle, the flame of the candle should get halved. (How stupid! but that's what i feel now.)

--If there are 2 people infronta TV initially, and if another 2 add up, making it total up to 4, the Audio volume of the television should be doubled too. That if no. of persons were doubled, screen size should be doubled, tho, never came to my mind (I wonder now, why)

--A typical ‘Doctor’s Prescription’ looks something like this…

Mom used to sign it and give it to patients. This means ‘blah-blah’ medicine (here, say, Combiflam). Encircled number (here, 6) means- ‘so many’ to be bought. This is rather hilarious. I used to conceive it in an utterly diverse manner! I envisioned what the patient does as- cuts the encircled part of the paper perfectly along the circumference drawn by mom, puts it in a glass of warm water and ‘those many’ number of tablets would precipitate out ApneAap! :P
When I confessed this to mom, she went mad in laughter! And Pa? he says its rather awful to even think of me to be a daughter of two Doctors! :P

--Spellings- I never had much problem with spellings ever. But in my more immature days, I was more dim witted, or say an extra-thinker. Anything. Once while I was in my ‘junior kg’ish days, I was going thru spellings of eleven, twelve et al. when the spelling ‘thirteen’ brought some skepticism in my mind. I ran to my sis, who was then in ‘mine+3’ std and asked her about it. She said what’s wrong with the spelling, dear. And I, totally bemused, asserted to her that the spelling ‘thirteen’ is wrong! And so are some more spellings following it. She said – WHAT !!! (she was shocked seeing my confidence, :P)
I explicated- see, it should be ‘thirtteen’. She says BUT WHY ??? My answer was- (innocently) one ‘t’ of ‘thirt’ and the other ‘t’ for ‘teen’ making it ‘thirt’+’teen’ = ‘thirtteen’. She tried her best to convince me of ‘thirteen’ as correct spelling but nothing seemed to quench it. Only over a period of time now, I’m satiated after observing entire world following ‘single ‘t’ ‘ in thirteen.

hehe...

Some more adding up to the list are as follows :)

--While a child, I used to think that more the hair are watered, like grass, more will they grow. This was rather very verry innocent... <3

--At that tender age daily soaps that mom n sis used to watch had some deeper & weird impact on me. I used to feel that WE sitting in India can watch these people, present somewhere else in the world, on TV. Whatever they talk, whatever they do, how ever they behave, we either like or dislike. And I used to imagine that somewhere in the world, ( I clearly remember the name of the country- RUSSIA :P, dunno why only Russia! )In Russia, people can see what we are doing as well :P… which probably gave me inspiration to behave well :D :D talk good… study good (in those days) :D The more I got exposed to reality, all these good things started to alleviate :) Sometimes I even used to look at the ceiling, in search of a camera that aids them to see us :P

--Whenerver I used to go out with mom, on two wheeler, seeing the vehicles flow on both the sides, I used to wonder, why don’t any two of them collide ever ???!!! :P Mom never even bothered to answer my question. :D !! Worse, why did I bother to even ask????

Goodnight/day.

A toast to my buddies..

There’s a reclining corner in everyone’s life, you know, a place where you can just tilt back, seek comfort, and talk and talk and talk yourself out, with the conviction that the person who you are talking all this out to, isn’t getting bored stiff and is listening to you with equal concern. Well, I’m lucky. I have made many such corners in life, the people I love, my friends!

I have been truly blessed. My friends- the major part of what makes me. I wanna tag a number of people here, to begin with: Janhavi, Neha, Renuka [din’t know which name to put first, thank God the alphabets have a sequence :D ] These are my friends since….ummmm……. ever. I dunno where it started. But we make the best best best of friends..

Friends!! Sometimes we have so many words to say about them and some other times we fall short of the very words. Today is that one odd day when I have so much to write but no combination of words will do justice to what I wanna convey! Reaching out to each other in times of dejection, sometimes just some long SMSs to undo the blues, talking about resp. boyfriends [ :P :P , @boyfriends: ;) ;) yes we do! ] recollecting all those hilarious gaffes; to mention a few- when renuka fell off the stairs in jnec college or the one at the ‘Monica Chowk’ or the fship day when I, completely drenched in rains, lost my footing and fell down. Each time we recollect it, we laugh, laugh even louder than ever before. There are special moments that bring us even closer, reinforce the friendship, tighten the bond and make us establish, every time, firmly that yes, these are the people I don’t wanna lose ever!

Minus 4 years:

Onset of a new life- the graduation, we parted our ways, so to say. Different cities……. different group of friends…. Lesser meet ups... To be honest, I was scared. This was the only concrete group of friends I had… I didn’t wanna lose them, sure, but more than that I never wanted them to have a group better than ours…. :P [Mean I am, I know]

And my wish came true …….. : ) its “US” even today for each of us !!! :D : )

Today when we are at the inception of a newer life… jobs and PG and what not… I hope things will remain constant as they have been till now. I love extrapolation. And the trend says, nothing will change : )

You all have endured my worst of behaviors and yet I have you guys there as the firm rock that I can rely on. There have been times when I have mistaken, misbehaved, crossed my line but each time you all disregarded it. What? What more can I ask you guys for? Thanks for being there through the best and worst of my times. All the happiness I have had in all my life, has mostly come outta the fact that I posses you all, my best friends… the best best best best people of the world !!! [ quite often, in describing you gals, one ‘best’ doesn’t decipher all the feelings, multiple ‘best’s fall short too :P ]

@Janu: I’m still serious about having our houses next to each other’s and all ‘those’ things we dreamt of !!! ;) ;) Oh what fun, it will be !! : )

Love you all…

Goodnight/day!!!

[ feels good being prosaic after a long long time, poetry is off for a while, I hope : ) ]