Humans fly faster
Well yeah, we have bigger wings
Fuck you, the Peregrine Falcon is awesome, it is best bird, fight me.
I will not have my boy be slandered like this.
It’s only “fast” because it’s just falling.
Ok buddy, let’s see you pull out of a terminal velocity (180mph) head first dive.
As any pilot will tell you; if you manage to pull out of a dive it’s not falling out of the sky, it’s aerobatics.
Ontop of this, it’s catching prey in it’s talons, let’s see you try and grab anything when traveling at 180mph in any direction.
I’ve ridden in an airplane before, it’s not difficult.
Isn’t this also the bird that picked up its prey and drops them from a great height to kill them since it can’t kill with its claws?
Even better. It curls its feet into fists and dive bombs with a 240mph punch to stun its prey, then casually walks up to finish the job with its beak.
It kills with the real life Falcon Punch
falling is cheating.
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style.
Seriously, I’m sure we could find some shark with a faster terminal speed if dropped from high enough…
The real trick is that these Falcons exceed their terminal velocity in those dives. So not just falling but falling with added power and a hell of a lot of style!
I’m sorry. That answer wasn’t in the form of a question.
I hate that. In France we have Question Pour Un Champion (questions for a winner) where the host gives a definition and ends with “I am…” and the contestant would say “a cheetah”
Nobody cares about France
Edit: downvotes from Frenchies mad that they still haven’t come up with their own word for Internet
In that case Felix Baumgartner is the fastest human being.
With a top speed of 843.6 mike’s per hour.
Ussain Bolt and suck it.
Edit: if the autocorrect mistake is funny, just leave tit as tit is.On earth = cheetah
In the skies = dumb falcon
To be faaaair, the cheetah reaches 100+ km/h on it’s own merits, the dumb falcon just falls really fast
If you drop a whale from space it will probably beat that speed record while falling, the falcon doesn’t get extra credit just because he can get up there and survive without help
A bowl of petunias would beat the falcon at some points in its descent from space. Possibly over and over again.
Straight horizontal max speed flight for the falcon is 110-130 km/h though, so still very fast even when not falling.
I had a pretty cool encounter with one about 6-7 years ago, I was on a driving holiday and we were cruising throught the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park doing about 90-100km and one of these guys just casually comes up to my window, so close I could have grabbed it. It must have picked some drag effect off the van like a wake in the air or something and it was just gliding next to us with the occasional flap for a good 5 minutes until there was an incoming car and it ducked out
That must have been incredible!
Okay, show me a cheetah running in microgravity.
There ain’t no way a whale’s terminal velocity reaches 240 mph. The falcon’s credit comes from the fact that it can make itself so aerodynamic.
That’s the fastest animal above earth, silly
That apostrophe, tho.
That was my bad. :( :)
Better not do it again, or pretty much nothing will happen.
You’ve been warned
D:
A tiny tardigrade shot off a .50 bullet. It would probably survive too
Pretty sure my daughter runs faster when there’s a spider in her room.
Just try this and see what happens…
Straight to IP gulag.
Wikipedia has matured a lot. They are serious over there.
