How to make it rain men properly?

In a certain world there is a ruler who runs a very powerful country with an iron fist. A faction of oppositionists has been giving her lip and has made some mean comments implying she brings the country dishonor due to not being chaste.

She wishes to punish those remarks by enacting a certain song in a literal manner over the opposition's headquarters. An amount of young adult men from the opposition is to be defrenestrated from cargo airplanes while The Weather Girls' It's Raining Men is broadcast on all TV and radio stations.

Question: Assuming the lads are dropped from 10 km up, over an area of five acres and for five minutes, how many men would she need to drop in order for their blood to cover the streets and form puddles as much as the water from a light rain would over the same area and span? And how spread apart should they be?

Assumptions:

• Each body splashes half of their blood around upon impact and the blokes average at 70kg in weight;

• She has a large enough fleet of planes (and as many men as she needs) to do it;

• By light rain I mean small, shallow puddles on the asphalt. Also, if it were regular water instead of rain a simple umbrella would be enough to keep someone mostly dry.

posted over 6 years ago

Renan‭

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