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To be very technical and precise, the answer consists of two parts:

1). No.

2). Outside of laboratory conditions, there can be no free-falling objects on Earth.

"Free falling" means that there is no other force on the object except the gravitational one,

so there's no friction acting on it. But this situation is impossible on Earth, because anything

that falls is falling through air, so it does have friction acting on it ... called "air resistance" ...

and it's not free falling.

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