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In the cartoon Wile E. coyote runs of a cliff to escape a truck and runs on air until he realizes he is on air.  Then he plummets to the ground.  In real life he would have just fallen immedietly because the second he left the cliff he became a free falling object and is acted uppon by gravity.

DANYAL TANWEER