Could Pennies Be Replacing Bullets? 
People have been led to believe that a penny falling from the top of the Eiffel Tower or more commonly heard, the Empire State Building, could kill people. Some people say that the penny would not build up enough velocity to actually kill someone. Although i have also heard that a penny that was falling went straight through a person. But you can't believe everything you see. There are many perspectives that help and some that contradict this myth. This certain question comes from one of the more popular myths that if a penny falls from the Empire State Building, it is believed that it would hit a person so hard that it would kill them. But there are many ways that people can prove this myth wrong.
Sources say that a penny falling off the Empire State Building would not build up enough velocity to kill someone. There are also forces working on the penny such as air resistance and wind causing the penny to move around more and flip in the air causing the penny to slow down so i wouldn't hit very hard. The Empire State Building is 486 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower. So, if a penny dropped from the Empire State Building would not kill someone in the landing, a penny dropped from the Eiffel Tower would not kill anyone either.
To bust this myth, i looked at many credible sources. In one of the sources that i observed it said that the Mythbusters team performed experiments for this myth and it was busted. They said that the penny, going at a velocity of 64 mph which was fired at the co-hosts hand did not even hit hard enough to leave a serious injury (Book of Odds). A penny dropped from a very high building will not be able to kill someone because it will not hit a high enough terminal velocity once it gets close enough to hitting the ground, or a person (Big Site of Amazing Facts). When considering the force of gravity you immediately could think that this myth was possible. But then when you think about a penny falling through the air, including the wind moving the penny around in different directions, it will make it not hit as hard. Making it less possible for the penny to hit someone. It is rather unlikely and has been proven to not be true and it was busted.
Picture From: Eiffel Tower Paris France
Taken by: Mathias Vejerslev
