Originally Posted by pacificaslim

I think you're overthinking this now. If I put on a jacket, I certainly weigh more than without it. If I unzip it and use it as a "parachute" like object to increase my air resistance and slow me down while falling out of an airplane or rolling downhill on my bike, this does not make me weigh any less (by any commonly accepted concept of the word "weight"). I go slower, but I weigh more, than I would without that weight on my body. That's all I was saying: that adding weight in a way that increases air resistance will not result in a faster fall - and therefore, if we want to be totally accurate, we can not hold that falling speed is dependent on weight, (since it is not always so).