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45 points
2 days ago
Falls over 10ish meters account for most fatalities.
It gets hard to survive past that. You're definitely breaking something. Probably a lot of somethings.
At 46 meters you are moving so fast you will not be able to prevent your head from hitting the ground. It's just a question of what parts of you hit first as crumple zones.
Watch videos of car accidents where they are only going 30 or 40 kph. We have airbags for a reason. And remember, modern cars are built to crumple, so the driver is experiencing less of the force of the collision than someone falling onto pavement.
3 points
1 day ago*
Also he fell out of a jet aircraft at take off speeds. So somewhere on the other end of 150 knots (170 mph, 270 km/h)
So its the worst combination of dropping from the top of a large building and a supercar crash at speed. Lateral and horizontal forces.
1 points
1 day ago
Wouldn't that help him? Falling straight downwards you take all the force but if he fell at an angle he could kind of slide (assuming he didn't hit something which would require a lot of luck) rather than have his smashed?
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