If you jumped out of an airplane without a parachute and landed in the ocean. Would you live? in Community >
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18 May 2012, 00:54 (1 year ago)
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1eyedwillie29510
I sky dive and most people that jump off a high bridge and hit the water die now that does not mean all do but the impact is like hitting concrete I guarantee if you live your either in a wheel chair or in a body cast for a long long time...
willie is right n it can be explained much emphatically with the help of archimedes principle n newtons law of gravitation.
Depends how high and if you know what you are doing. There is a certain way to prepare with arm crossed over other arm and holding your nose closed. Also pointing the feet downwards and dropping something to break the surface of the water before you hit it. Yup, Something like your legs (Wincing thinking about compound fractures)'cause if you dropped the something, it would be traveling at the same speed and wouldn't do anything, whereas (I believe) the inertia you used to throw an object would actually slow you down due to Newton's third Law: Fg = The force of gravity (typically in newtons)G = The gravitational constant, which adds the proper level of proportionality to the equation. The value of G is 6.67259 x 10-11 N * m2 / kg2, although the value will change if other units are being used. m1 & m1 = The masses of the two particles (typically in kilograms) r = The straight-line distance between the two particles (typically in meters) This equation gives us the magnitude of the force, which is an attractive force and therefore always directed toward the other particle. As per Newton's Third Law of Motion, this force is always equal and opposite. You Were definitely right about holding your nose, because you could equalize the pressure once in the water and save your eardrums.. When I was a younger fellow, BACK IN THE 70'S-lol We used to jump off the top of a train trestle into the River 60 feet below. luckily the water was about 25 feet deep. Kind of funny story 'cause once I jumped into the river swam to the bottom to check for loose change and found the keys to my brothers van that he had lot 2 YEARS previously.![]() ![]() Last edited by Flash4504697, 1 year ago Been playing GTA4? This can be done in that game and you live but in real life hitting the water at a fast speed will kill you:
look at it this way; you are 3000 feet in the air traveling at say 130 mph in a plane so upon dropping you already have speed now I forget the increased rate of fall average as in for each mile your speed increases by. But I think it is about 3-4 fold over initial speed so lets say at point of impact you are traveling at 300+ mph now water is liquid but have you ever done a belly flop wrong and feel it sting? Upon impact it will be like hitting a wall, your bones will separate from their joints basically you will hit and it will be like a cookie press it will flatten you and expand your body [or try to] this will most likely cause a brain hemorrhage and will possibly flatten your chest cavity as in your ribs will shatter and could very well end up stabbing your heart if it didn't explode already, Now before all this happens you will have passed out due to the force of wind entering your lungs in which will cause a vacuum which will cause them to collapse, from this you will suffocate and eventually pass out. ![]() Flash4504697
Depends how high and if you know what you are doing. There is a certain way to prepare with arm crossed over other arm and holding your nose closed. Also pointing the feet downwards and dropping something to break the surface of the water before you hit it. Yup, Something like your legs (Wincing thinking about compound fractures)'cause if you dropped the something, it would be traveling at the same speed and wouldn't do anything, whereas (I believe) the inertia you used to throw an object would actually slow you down due to Newton's third Law: Fg = The force of gravity (typically in newtons)G = The gravitational constant, which adds the proper level of proportionality to the equation. The value of G is 6.67259 x 10-11 N * m2 / kg2, although the value will change if other units are being used. m1 & m1 = The masses of the two particles (typically in kilograms) r = The straight-line distance between the two particles (typically in meters) This equation gives us the magnitude of the force, which is an attractive force and therefore always directed toward the other particle. As per Newton's Third Law of Motion, this force is always equal and opposite. You Were definitely right about holding your nose, because you could equalize the pressure once in the water and save your eardrums.. When I was a younger fellow, BACK IN THE 70'S-lol We used to jump off the top of a train trestle into the River 60 feet below. luckily the water was about 25 feet deep. Kind of funny story 'cause once I jumped into the river swam to the bottom to check for loose change and found the keys to my brothers van that he had lot 2 YEARS previously.![]() ![]() What he said.
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whereas (I believe) the inertia you used to throw an object would actually slow you down due to Newton's third Law: Fg = The force of gravity (typically in newtons)
luckily the water was about 25 feet deep. Kind of funny story 'cause once I jumped into the river swam to the bottom to check for loose change and found the keys to my brothers van that he had lot 2 YEARS previously.











