Talk:3058: Tall Structures

This is not actually possible, since a knit garment is not made from one long thread of yarn, but many interwoven threads.

This is actually wrong; knitting is a technique for entangling a single yarn with itself in such a way that it forms a fabric. (It's not to be confused with weaving, which does indeed use many, shorter threads.) In practice, a large, complex item like a sweater is made from multiple pieces sewn together, but it would have something like a single digit number of separate yarns.

Incidentally, a sweater contains on the order of a kilometer of yarn, which is also about the minimum safe distance for skydiving, so this scenario passes the Fermi estimate sniff test.

162.158.159.100 00:55, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Wouldn't the yarn snap at some point from acceleration due to gravity and the tightness of the weave pattern? TomtheBuilder (talk) 01:56, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Usually, the plane you are skydiving from won't remain circling above you ... -- Hkmaly (talk) 03:22, 4 March 2025 (UTC)