These Apple commercials are getting weird.
Now THIS is Reality TV!
Airplane mode has been disabled.
Device iPhone(47) was removed without ejecting. Please use menu to eject before removal.
Find My iPhone alert: your iPhone was left behind.
Apple Fitness has logged either one skydive or 2000 flights of stairs
Flight mode has been enabled.
YHOJ…
Damn that shit fell from like 16000 feet and is pretty much undamaged, pretty wild. Even more surprised they actually found it.
It was a few minutes after takeoff so they were still over a populated area. Hardly surprising that it was found… also if it landed on grass I’m not surprised it’s undamaged.
My Google Pixel Bud fell into a bush the other day. Despite knowing its basic vicinity I still couldn’t find it. I used the find feature which makes it ring loud but still had issues as cars on the road were too noisy. I had to wait until after 8PM to try again. Thankfully I managed to but it really wasn’t easy!
It’s only if you want to find it that it’s hard to find. You have to pretend you don’t care either way.
Guess you just needed to call in the ntsb to look for plane parts next time.
Oh god I have the lemongrass GPBP, and they were impossible to find in… Grass.
I know the area it landed in and if it was any more north it could have landed in some swampy wetlands and would potentially be underwater.
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Terminal velocity: It can only fall so fast, no matter what. Objects don’t continue accelerating faster and faster. At some point, they’re going as fast as they can go given conditions.
In other words, there may be do difference in dropping it out a 3-story window, 16,000 feet, or 120,000 feet.
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Not grass, a bush. Best case scenario short of a vat of jello.
I wonder how quickly a phone reaches its terminal velocity? Falling from 15 feet might be the same as falling from 16,000. I agree that it’s impressive though, I grew up learning to treat electronics very gently, so it’s wild how much more sturdy they’ve gotten.
Not gonna stop me from buying phone cases, though.
Ehhh if it didn’t land on anything hard it shouldn’t be surprising it wasn’t damaged. I used to work at an amusement park in the mid '00s and have personally seen those shitty disposable cameras fall hundreds of feet off rollercoasters into bushes and survive unscathed.
While impressive, it probably reached terminal velocity after ~100 feet.
I’m surprised it was found before it locked
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Game designer Sean Bates found an iPhone in a bush Sunday that had fallen from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 when it lost a part of its fuselage shortly after takeoff.
Bates posted pictures of his discovery that afternoon, one of which included the screen showing a still-open email with a baggage receipt.
The phone fell out of the plane when, just a few minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 737 Max 9 explosively decompressed, sending a fuselage plug flying off of the plane and forcing it to turn around and make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport, where it had originally taken off.
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed during a Sunday briefing that two phones were recovered after falling from the Boeing 737 Max 9 — one was found on the side of the road and another in a yard.
On Saturday, the FAA grounded 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes pending investigation to see if this was indicative of a broader issue.
The same day of the incident, The Seattle Times reported that Boeing had requested a safety exemption for an unrelated defect that could cause catastrophic engine damage.
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Wired published a story in 2011 after an iPhone 4 dropped 1,000 feet from a plane and survived.
I’m still weighing whether this tops Vesna Vulović or not.
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No, 10km > 5km.
Can someone please calculate the terminal velocity of this bad boy. Also, an info on what case it was in?
And here my phones have been screwed by 3 to 5 foot falls
Check the screws see if they were actually installed or maybe they’re a little loose.
