You thought you had enough of it at school (Physics...)
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Einion
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An elevator falls down a shaft at roughly 80mph, since you can\'t jump upwards remotely that fast even if you could time the jump correctly it wouldn\'t make enough difference to matter (I watch Mythbusters meOriginally posted by finn17
You are in a lift and the cable breaks. You start to descend rapidly.....
If, while the lift is plummetting, you jump up and down...
)I think the interesting part of this is the \"you\'re in a lift and the cable breaks\" part since this is so rare, and there are safety systems built into them to prevent one falling even if the cable is broken. I don\'t know if it\'s still true but I think nobody has ever died in an elevator - even in the Empire State when struck by a B-25!
Actually I think you spend more time on the ground than in the air so the chances are you\'ll be landing or jumping when the impact occurs.
Lie on your back to spread the load as widely as possible - you will be hurt but you won\'t experience the \'bag of marbles\' effect. The human body can actually withstand decelerations of nearly 100gs without much harm.
Einion
Intrestingly enough, I was once at a party on the 8th floor of a building when someone in a drunken stupor fell from one of the windows.
Now thats roughly75-80 feet, but what made it worse is he landed on concrete.
When he landed it sounded like a chord of wood hitting the ground, and we watched him bounce.
He was so drunk he went limp, landed on his feet, and rolled with it.
He shattered both his legs up to about mid thigh, broke one arm, and got a concussion.
When the paramedics got there, they took off his boots (Why? I have know idea.) you could hear bone rattling around in his steel toes
When he got to the hospital the docters were in disbelief when we told him he fell from 8th floor, they said his injuries were only consistent with a 4 floor fall, they then pronounced that being drunk saved his life.
They patched him up pretty well, but a mix up in paperwork, from a hospital transferance, an infection in one of his legs was overlooked and he lost the leg.
Nonetheless he was very happy and lucky to be alive.
Now thats roughly75-80 feet, but what made it worse is he landed on concrete.
When he landed it sounded like a chord of wood hitting the ground, and we watched him bounce.
He was so drunk he went limp, landed on his feet, and rolled with it.
He shattered both his legs up to about mid thigh, broke one arm, and got a concussion.
When the paramedics got there, they took off his boots (Why? I have know idea.) you could hear bone rattling around in his steel toes
When he got to the hospital the docters were in disbelief when we told him he fell from 8th floor, they said his injuries were only consistent with a 4 floor fall, they then pronounced that being drunk saved his life.
They patched him up pretty well, but a mix up in paperwork, from a hospital transferance, an infection in one of his legs was overlooked and he lost the leg.
Nonetheless he was very happy and lucky to be alive.
Shawn R. L.
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That\'s one of the cruel ironies in drunk driving crashes. Many times the drunk will kill someone else yet survive themselves for just the fact you mentioned.???
Consider it this way, using relativity. Suppose the trampoline was not moving at all and you started jumping when a 50 MPH hour wind was comming at you. Would you land on the trampoline?
In other words, you and the trampoline moving 50 MPH into the wind is the same as the wind moving 50 MPG into you and the trampoline. A 50 MPH wind is consiered \"gale force winds\" by the National Weather Service and \"severe gale based on the Beaufort scale.
Consider this. 120 MPH is enough to keep you vertically in the air and is used in wind tunnels for sky diving training.
In general I could not find any good references to horizontal pressures at 50 MPH but it certanly seems logical that it could easily move you several feet in the tmie it took you to jump from the trampoline to the point where gravity would return you to the trampoline. Logic dictates one should neither jump on trampolines in gale force winds nor when they are moving along at 50 MPH.
Duende
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Maybe so, but if he stayed sober he wouldn\'t have fallen in the first place.
Being drunk at the time of his accident may have lessened the severity of his injuries, and kept him from losing his life, but it certainly didn\'t improve it.
Sorry if I seems a bit touchy on this subject, I\'ve been dealing with a family member who\'s in denial about his \"problem\", and saying \"being drunk saved a life\" doesn\'t acknowledge the fact that something was still lost from being in a drunken stupor.
Sorry for being a bummer... back to your regularly scheduled \"crazy trampoline tricks\" thread...
They do that to evaluate the injuries, stabilize the leg as much as possible, look for possible life threatening injuries (ie an arterial bleed) ect. Anytime you have muliple traumatic injuries your clothes are removed or cut off your body during the paramedics assessment.
While I have seen to much of this phenomenon to totally dismiss it, I will say that dumb luck has to play a bigger part. If he landed on his head first, the outcome would be different, no matter how drunk he was.
Oh, I totally agree that it was completely his fault for being that drunk and falling in the first place.
Have you ever been rear-ended and seen it coming? It\'s happened to me twice, and if you know it\'s coming you involuntarely stiffen up, which is the exact opposite of what you should do. It\'s weird.
He was just too drunk to be scared and go all rigid, he stayed relaxed, which allowed him to roll with it.
Have you ever been rear-ended and seen it coming? It\'s happened to me twice, and if you know it\'s coming you involuntarely stiffen up, which is the exact opposite of what you should do. It\'s weird.
He was just too drunk to be scared and go all rigid, he stayed relaxed, which allowed him to roll with it.
Originally posted by Evil Dave
Unless you are very drunk in which case you should live.
Well assuming you fall off of the trampoline onto unforgiving pavement, having your body in a loose condition is preferable to having your body in a rigid condition in terms of breaking bones and stuff like that.
On the other hand, being drunk it might be difficult to hit the trampoline even when there is no movement or wind at all. lol
True, but if you drink enough, you probably won\'t remember the \"little experiment\" you wanted to try.Originally posted by tzor
Originally posted by Evil Dave
Unless you are very drunk in which case you should live.
Well assuming you fall off of the trampoline onto unforgiving pavement, having your body in a loose condition is preferable to having your body in a rigid condition in terms of breaking bones and stuff like that.
On the other hand, being drunk it might be difficult to hit the trampoline even when there is no movement or wind at all. lol
