Thread: How high do you think you can fall and not hurt yourself?

Three guys died on the same day n are in front of St. Peter who tells them there is only room for 1 of them n the 1 with the most tragic story will be let in.
The 1st guy says.
"WELL for some time I have been aware that my wife is having an affair. I came home today and could smell the bastards cologne. I looked everywhere. Finally I went onto the balcony and sure enough I see his fingers clutching the edge of the balcony, can you believe it 10 floors up and he hangs off the balcony? Anyway, I started stomping on his fingers and then pried them loose one by one until he was sailing backward toward the ground. I couldn't wait to see him die. BUT the lucky bastard landed in a bush. I was so mad I went into my kitchen and wrestled the fridge out onto the balcony and over the railing. Squashed the bastard that's the good news. Bad news all the exertion gave me a heart attack n here I am."
Second guy says "Well I was exercising this morning on my balcony on the 11th floor. I slipped on a patch of water and went tumbling over the railing. Luckily I managed to grasp the edge of the balcony below me. I just closed my eyes and prayed. When I opened them I was relieved to see a man standing there. But the bastard just started stomping on my hands and then tore my grip away and I was free falling toward the ground . Once again I began to pray. I prayed like never before and by the grace of God I landed in a bush. I closed my eyes again to thank the Lord and when I opened them a refridgerator was coming straight at me n well that's why I'm here."
The third guy says " Well i was hiding....naked....inside of a refridgerator....."

13.78 feet!

A guy fell a mile after his chute failed. He landed in someone's backyard (after bouncing twice) and all he ended up with was a concussion. When asked how he did it, he replied "I just closed my eyes and all the way down I kept repeating 'I am a limp noodle, I am a limp noodle...'"

If you know how to absorb the impact, pretty damn high.

Originally Posted by fufu

I you know how to absorb the impact, pretty damn high.

Originally Posted by fletcher6490

If!

I'll make you absorb some of my impact!!

Originally Posted by fufu

If!

I'll make you absorb some of my impact!!

Originally Posted by fufu

If you know how to absorb the impact, pretty damn high.

How do you do that?

Roll at you touch the ground. Haven't you seen the videos of the guys who building hop? They free fall from some pretty tall heights and just roll into the impact.

I don't know the exact mechanics. One thing to keep in mind is to be loose and don't tense yourself, that is how you break bones. Slightly unrelated, but that is why alot of drunk drivers survive car crashes and come out injury free, they don't tighten up and extend their limbs during the crash because they are so darn wasted.

about 25 feet

Originally Posted by fufu

Roll at you touch the ground. Haven't you seen the videos of the guys who building hop? They free fall from some pretty tall heights and just roll into the impact.

I don't know the exact mechanics. One thing to keep in mind is to be loose and don't tense yourself, that is how you break bones. Slightly unrelated, but that is why alot of drunk drivers survive car crashes and come out injury free, they don't tighten up and extend their limbs during the crash because they are so darn wasted.

Got it. Get drunk and ROFL technique.

Right, always have atleast 10 shots in you before jumping off something tall.

Originally Posted by fufu

Roll at you touch the ground. Haven't you seen the videos of the guys who building hop? They free fall from some pretty tall heights and just roll into the impact.

I don't know the exact mechanics. One thing to keep in mind is to be loose and don't tense yourself, that is how you break bones. Slightly unrelated, but that is why alot of drunk drivers survive car crashes and come out injury free, they don't tighten up and extend their limbs during the crash because they are so darn wasted.

I perform in a drama here in Branson and one of the dramatic moments I get shot and fall off a roof.I actually slide and then drop about 9ft.It's all in the technique.As fufu said you stay limber and as soon as your feet touch the ground you go into a roll.I can do this with a shotgun in my hand,but now I'm just bragging.

Someone in my school recently just friday jumped out the second story window which is about 15 feet off ground and did not get hurt. Rolled backwards

In my aikido class the intructor would have us do rolls from a step ladder, that was scary, but it's possible to fall from heights and crumple into a wheel and roll out of it and onto your feet, I saw a guy do one off of a horse before...

Its a physics question. I know small rodents are able to fall off of airplanes because their terminal speed does not reach a high enough speed to be deadly

Originally Posted by bigss75

Its a physics question. I know small rodents are able to fall off of airplanes because their terminal speed does not reach a high enough speed to be deadly

Yep, it's a surface area to square of size ratio. If a rodent 1/10 the size of a human had 1/1000 the mass, it would encounter 1/100 the air resistance, making its resistance to falling 10 times greater than the driving force, which lowers terminal velocity.

I fell off the curb to my house once and twisted my ankle

Dale fell off the wagon and went back to being gay again

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

Yep, it's a surface area to square of size ratio. If a rodent 1/10 the size of a human had 1/1000 the mass, it would encounter 1/100 the air resistance, making its resistance to falling 10 times greater than the driving force, which lowers terminal velocity.

So are you saying that because the rat encounters less air resistance it falls slower? Doesnt make much sense to me.

Glad to see you back. Sorry to hear about your friend.

Originally Posted by Vieope

So are you saying that because the rat encounters less air resistance it falls slower? Doesnt make much sense to me.

Glad to see you back. Sorry to hear about your friend.

You have to think of air resistance in terms of mass of the falling object. Any falling object will continue to accelerate until it encounters the same amount of air resistance that is equal to its mass, which is terminal velocity. A person's mass is much more than that of a small rodent so it experiences a greater force of gravity, and will accelerate to a higher speed before reaching terminal velocity. The more massive the object in freefall, the faster they have to travel for their air resistance force to equal their gravity force, so they would encounter more air resistance than an object of lesser mass.


Thanks V, it's good to be back. I'm sorry too, and I cant imagine what he was going through.

Originally Posted by maniclion

In my aikido class the intructor would have us do rolls from a step ladder, that was scary, but it's possible to fall from heights and crumple into a wheel and roll out of it and onto your feet, I saw a guy do one off of a horse before...

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Originally Posted by BigDyl

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Originally Posted by gococksDJS

You have to think of air resistance in terms of mass of the falling object. Any falling object will continue to accelerate until it encounters the same amount of air resistance that is equal to its mass, which is terminal velocity. A person's mass is much more than that of a small rodent so it experiences a greater force of gravity, and will accelerate to a higher speed before reaching terminal velocity. The more massive the object in freefall, the faster they have to travel for their air resistance force to equal their gravity force, so they would encounter more air resistance than an object of lesser mass.


Thanks V, it's good to be back. I'm sorry too, and I cant imagine what he was going through.

I was looking at the fall more like a corridor of a night club. If there is less people so less resistance, it would be easier to walk through it faster.

So why parachutes work then? You are falling, you and your parachute, then you open it and the mass of your parachute and you are still the same but you increased the area, increasing air resistance but you go slower. Shouldnt it be faster? You said the rat went slower because it encountered less air resistance.

Originally Posted by Vieope

I was looking at the fall more like a corridor of a night club. If there is less people so less resistance, it would be easier to walk through it faster.

So why parachutes work then? You are falling, you and your parachute, then you open it and the mass of your parachute and you are still the same but you increased the area, increasing air resistance but you go slower. Shouldnt it be faster? You said the rat went slower because it encountered less air resistance.

A rat doesn't go slower because it encounters less air resistance. It goes slower because the speed at which the air resistance force equals the gravity force for a mouse is slower than that of something with 100 or 1000 times more mass, like a human. It's like pushing a box over a slightly smooth surface (the mouse in freefall) versus pushing a box over a very rough surface (a person in freefall). You encounter less friction and thus exert less force to do the same amount of work, and kinetic friction is a negative force in comparision to forward motion, just like air resistance would be a negative force in comparison to freefall, in which gravity is a positive force. Fgrav=m*g and since on earth g=9.8m/s^2, Fgrav, or gravitational force, increases with mass, meaning the more mass you have, the more air resistance is needed to equal gravitational force, which is terminal velocity.

A parachute is a slightly different concept. So far i've been talking about the speed at which an object reaches terminal velocity, which would be less for the mouse due to its mass, but a parachute increases the area of the skydiver, which decreases the amount of time it takes to reach terminal velocity and initially increases the amount of air resistance encountered. But due to the parachute, the air resistance becomes greater than gravitational force, making the total acceleration experienced point upward rather than down (the opposite of freefall), and causes a decrease in his velocity, and as speed drops, air resistance drops to the point that terminal velocity is again reached meaning that from terminal velocity in freefall without an open parachute to terminal velocity with an opened parachute, the person has actually experienced a decrease in air resistance due to the two separate values of terminal velocity at separate intervals of freefall.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

Dale fell off the wagon and went back to being gay again

Lol..............


i don't know you, but am glad you came back.

Originally Posted by Vieope

So are you saying that because the rat encounters less air resistance it falls slower? Doesnt make much sense to me.

Originally Posted by gococksDJS

A rat doesn't go slower because it encounters less air resistance.

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So you finally agreed with me. I think it is very nice of and humble of you to recognize that I am more awesome than you. It is no big deal, nobody cares, so I am better than you, so what?

After my chem. lab experiment last night I realize this is a trick question, you can't fall up, see "How high do you think you can fall..." We have to remember that this comes from Planet Vieope, and maybe there gravity works differently, but here it would be how high can you jump... or how far could you fall...