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Your above posting shows that you have absolutely no knowledge of basic
(the most basic of) physics. Falling objects of different weights fall
at the same speed, weight has nothing to do with it. Now, before you
scream, "no, a feather falls slower than a golf ball," you must remember
that in a case of a feather or a piece of paper, you have wind resistance
to consider. On the moon (which has no atmosphere and therefore wind
resistance is not a factor, in case you didn't know, and it wouldn't
surprise me if you didn't), astronauts dropped a hammer and a feather side
by side to test the phenomenon, and as was expected, they hit the ground
at the same time. You can try here on earth if you use two objects that
are heavy enough to eliminate the problem of wind resistance. Try a
tennis ball and a bookend or something.
In the case of two parts of the same object, the case is the same.
In the case of a small screwdriver for instance, the handle outweighs
the stem. Try dropping a small screwdriver first handle end down, then
pointed end down. You will find that unless you spin it as a knife
thrower (which won't be likely if you are merely dropping it straight
down), the end facing the ground will hit the
ground first. In the case of a suicidal person plunging from the top of
a high building, there are two factors that will cause the body to spin
end-over-end on the way down, but weight proportions have absolutely
nothing to do with it. One, the person has probably given him/herself ,
forward momentum by either running and jumping or diving of the top of
the building. If not, the person won't spin on the way down if it isn't
to high. If a person jumps off a 100 story building however (it doesn't
even have to be that high), even if they don't add any forward momentum
they will spin, simply due to wind resistance (as they build up speed) In
this case, weight proportions also have nothing to do with it. a person
who has hung his/herself to death in a tree will not have any forward
momentum if the rope breaks, and will therefore fall straight down. In
order for the body to spin in the manner you have suggested above (head
hits the ground first), this person would have had to have hung
him/herself from the top of the highest redwood tree (the world's
tallest tree, found on the western coast of the United States, in case you
didn't know), on the edge of a very high cliff no
doubt.As Farrell pointed out, if he hung himself, it probably was from a
modest height, if which there would be no chance the body would spin
end-over-end in the manner you hope. I have never heard of anyone in
history hanging themselves (or somebody else for that matter) from the
top of a 300 foot high tree, a tree hanging over a cliff. I find
it highly unlikely that Judas would have went through such great pains
and to such odd extremes to hang himself. Suicidal people who hang
themselves rarely concern themselves with the height at which they hang.
As long as there feet don't touch the ground, it works.