Woman Falls 11,500 Feet. Lives
<div class="IPBDescription">Extention from fear of flying thread.</div> <a href='http://www.spacetownusa.com/2004/08/woman-falls-from-11500-feet-survives.html' target='_blank'>Woman Falls from 11,500 feet, survives</a>
I guess if you can't win the lottery, you can break the odds in other ways.
I guess if you can't win the lottery, you can break the odds in other ways.
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I've bungee jumped never skydived although I'd like to try it, apparently its like rollercoasters, of which I hate.
As wise men say, theres no point in living if you don't live it. So theres no point in worrying about death if you are going to stay huddled up not doing anything you enjoy that is dangerous.
Correct. Thats why a plug socket has Earth, Neutral and Live Wires. She would only experience Live and Neutral if I am correct.
That's what I'm wondering about...
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But powerlines? Geez... If I had a choice, I'd go barn wall any day. I'm amazed she didn't touch multiple powerlines...
Now that I think about it, I keep picturing a cartoon of her having managed to grip on to a powerline, the lines stretching, then slingshoting her back a couple of extra hundred feet before she descends to finally hit the ground...
hehe
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translate THAT if you can, warning: there exist no jap-eng translators.
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I think it's like 54-56 meters per second if I remember correctly...
(PS: this is about 180 feet/sec for those of you who still don't use metric)
Status of that guy: Died in hospital under critical condition for more than 3 days.
How this person survived i still say is a fraud story. And what, no pictures? Sure and i skydived off a plane into a car scrapyard and survived landing on my head. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> I have got to see this video....link?
Momentum = mass * velocity
I don't know what the mass of this person is so let's say a average of 68 Kg person is falling at 55 m/s.
68 * 55 = 3740 Kg m / sec
Ground or water is more or less stationary and you are likely to decelerate with that momentum in less than a second which is sufficient for landing to break every bone in your body and rupture organs. Landing on an even harder surface like concrete should rupture the skin as well (ie. splatter). In all considerations I think the eye and ear canal would be last to rupture on impact.
Just FYI, so please don't think her luck can be repeated. Personally I am impressed to think this story is bogus until I heard that here parachute did open but not all the way.
Impulse
A. Begin by looking at Newton's 2nd Law
F = m a
B. Acceleration equals a change in velocity
a = D v / t
C. Substituting this into Newton's 2nd Law,
F = m D v / t or F t = m D v
D. Impulse is defined as the product of force multiplied by time. (F t)
E. There are three cases of impulse.
1. Increasing Momentum
a. Apply a greater force.
b. Apply the force for a greater amount of time.
- The average force of impact is the average force applied over a certain time interval. (Sort of like average velocity.)
2. Decreasing Momentum over a Long Time
- In this case the time quantity is large and the force quantity is small.
examples:
1. Padded dash and air bags.
2. Bending knees when you jump.
3. A wooden floor vs. a concrete floor.
4. Boxer rolling with the punch.
3. Decreasing Momentum over a Short Time
- In this case the force quantity is large and the time quantity is small.
examples: This is how a karate expert can break bricks.
elasticity should also be taken into account. Bones break often more often dure to the hard crystaline nature. Good at contant or gradual compression, bad at sudden impact compression, bending, or torque.
You can throw some bugs out of a plane and expect them to live because they have less mass (mass to weight ratio alone is more than a human) and their exoskeleton is strong and a tad bit flexible.
PS: High explosive weapons like nukes don't just have to burn to kill. They can usually kill either by throwing you against an object or by the sheer impact force of the air rupturing your internal organs.
The article has a major typo is my point:
120 MPH is about 55 m/s which is normal terminal velocity, but my point is that she could <i>not </i>freaking survive if she was still traveling at this speed on impact.
Stop reading the damn tabloids