Eggplant or Paper?
10:43 - 14:17
3m 34s
Beakman (as Galileo) does an experiment where he drops an eggplant and a piece of paper at the same time to see which lands first. The first go around, air resistance causes the paper to float down. He then wads it up and tries again to show they will fall at the same rate to the ground.

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