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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9705680" data-attributes="member: 29398">If I take a brick and a feather upstairs and drop them out the window over and over again, it's almost a dead-shot certainty the brick will hit the ground first every time, with the only exception being if the feather somehow got caught under the brick on release and dragged down with it.  The "why" is of course because the feather meets more air resistance and thus has a much lower terminal velocity, but for these purposes that's irrelevant: what matters is what's actually observed by whoever watches those two things fall.In-game, I think we universally assume our game settings come with breathable air, thus the brick-and-feather observation would hold true there as well; which for game-play and narration purposes is all we ever need unless there's suddenly no air - at which point everyone has far bigger things to worry about than how fast different things fall to the ground!</blockquote>