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09-02-2019, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Bay Kid

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Put your arm out a car window doing 80 MPH. Now double that. Scary.

I don't wish to scare you even more, but the force is calculated using the square of the speed, so a 160 mph wind has FOUR times the force of an 80 mph wind.

Last edited by Arctic Fox; 09-02-2019 at 06:33 PM.