Penny Drop

Oct 17, 2003 on Discovery Channel at 9:00 PM
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Summary

Can a pedestrian be killed by a penny dropped from the top of a skyscraper? The team finds out the terminal velocity of a penny and make a penny cannon, then shot it at a pigs scull. This showed if a penny being dropping at terminal velocity can kill... (more) someone. Can you be baked to death on a tanning bed? Can toothfillings transmit radio waves?

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