@mshimer5: Ha! You were certainly more qualified to answer it than me!

@mshimer5: I used Hooke's primarily because it gave me a convenient way to estimate the distances and heights. I've no doubt there are much better ways to model it, though the most fun and accurate would be dropping a dummy into piles of hay (Mythbusters......)

@fulldamage: It was a lot of fun to figure out. At least the AC stuff, Owen did the rest of the work.

@Covert_Knight: Plus, I'm a chemist. Physics isn't my thing

@Covert_Knight: I went with zero to make it a bit simpler and since he gets out of the hay (in game) with little to no injury, without knowing the minimum force needed for minor injury or bruising, I went with zero.

@Gondito: It can be pretty slow in a chemistry lab.

We chose bungees for a couple of reasons. First, the available information on the compressibility of hay and its ability to stop a falling body is pretty much nothing. We reasoned that a large pile of hay would behave more like a bungee (with the force coming from a different direction) than just a straight, linear…

Oh sweet mercy.....I think it might be time for a PS3...

My only gripe with the program so far is that it brings up an app launcher using the same keyboard shortcut as launchy's default (alt+space). Not a big deal, I suppose, but launchy was on my system first and I can't seem to find a place to change the shortcut inside System Explorer. Maybe I'm missing something...

They're only worth it if the cover comes in 3-D

@Quilt: except that the console version is all but abandoned...

Soooo, what if you're left handed?