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How come it's good to go limp when falling?

Rigidity increases the likelihood of something breaking instead of giving.

Most people will tense up big time if they see something coming their way. They often get injured more than the ones sleeping or boozed up. This is probably why many times a drunk driver kills innocents and they survive sometimes remarkably with few injuries.
 
because it increases the length of the impulse and thus decreases the amount of force at any giving time. Same concept as running into a brick wall or mattress.
 
Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
because it increases the length of the impulse and thus decreases the amount of force at any giving time. Same concept as running into a brick wall or mattress.
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Try putting pressure on the ends of a twig and tell me if it breaks. Do the same for a piece of spaghetti and let me know how that works. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
Try putting pressure on the ends of a twig and tell me if it breaks. Do the same for a piece of spaghetti and let me know how that works. 🙂
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Cookied spaghetti? 😉
 
Originally posted by: JDrake
Originally posted by: pulse8
Try putting pressure on the ends of a twig and tell me if it breaks. Do the same for a piece of spaghetti and let me know how that works. 🙂
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Cookied spaghetti? 😉
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huh 😕

the edible or human kind? 😕

lmao
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
Try putting pressure on the ends of a twig and tell me if it breaks. Do the same for a piece of spaghetti and let me know how that works. 🙂
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i went through a whole box of spaghetti and every single one of them snapped in the middle

edit: seems like i'm about 5 minutes behind the conversation
 
Originally posted by: JDrake
Originally posted by: pulse8
Try putting pressure on the ends of a twig and tell me if it breaks. Do the same for a piece of spaghetti and let me know how that works. 🙂
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Cookied spaghetti? 😉
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MM, cookied spaghetti. Tasty, esp. w/chocolate chips.
 
Originally posted by: pulse8
Try putting pressure on the ends of a twig and tell me if it breaks. Do the same for a piece of spaghetti and let me know how that works. 🙂
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Yeah, because you can make your bones soft by cooking them before you hit the ground.
 
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. - Jack Handy


There you have it
 
It would be funny if you get banned right before your 10000th post. All that much time wasted for nothing.
 
if you go rigid, your muscles pull on the ends of the bones to compress them and be prepared for some shock. your body didn't evolve to absorb the impact from a fall off your roof or car crashes. it evolved to be able to absorb minor shocks (jumping off some rocks to continue running in means of escaping, etc).

anyways, whenever your muscles tense up and cause rigidity in your body, your bones are much more susceptible to fracture because it doesn't go along with the force of the fall... its matrix along with your rigidity counteracts the force which causes stress fractures.

however, when you go limp, your bone absorbs some of the shock, but doesn't need to absorb more than it needs to because your bones move with the force from falling. whenever it moves with it, you're less likely to have bone breaks, ligament tears, cartilage tears, tendon tears, etc.... you'd be more likely to have a lot of bruises and scrapes (because your exterior takes more of the punishment).

basically, that means that the slower you can make a collision, the less likelyhood there is that something will break. that's why cars have crumple zones.
 
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
 
Originally posted by: Number1
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
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Originally posted by: JDrake
Originally posted by: Number1
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
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Those people survived for several reasons, luck being the main one. If relaxing your body was so effective in saving lives, why use parachutes? Just jump and relax.
 
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: JDrake
Originally posted by: Number1
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
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Text?
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Those people survived for several reasons, luck being the main one. If relaxing your body was so effective in saving lives, why use parachutes? Just jump and relax.
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Well because it's just more efficient than tensing apparently, not necessarily good
 
Originally posted by: Number1
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
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It's not bS; I've tested this myself. I threw 10 conscious people out a 3 story window and then followed that up by tossing another 10 unconscious people out after them. The conscious people had a higher incidence of broken bones and injuries, although I'm not sure that it wasn't just because they were first and the unconscious people were landing on top of them.

 
Originally posted by: jjones
Originally posted by: Number1
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
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It's not bS; I've tested this myself. I threw 10 conscious people out a 3 story window and then followed that up by tossing another 10 unconscious people out after them. The conscious people had a higher incidence of broken bones and injuries, although I'm not sure that it wasn't just because they were first and the unconscious people were landing on top of them.
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LMAO

Have you tough of using dead bodies? As everybody knows, after a few hours, a dead body will become stiff. Throw it off the 10th floor and record the injuries. Then use a freshly dead body still soft and repeat the experiment.
Let us know the results.

 
Originally posted by: Number1
Originally posted by: JDrake
Originally posted by: Number1
No offence to anybody but I think this going limp theory is just a bunch of BS.
Does anybody have any verifiable, credible information proving that going limp before an accident would actually prevent injury?
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Text?
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Those people survived for several reasons, luck being the main one. If relaxing your body was so effective in saving lives, why use parachutes? Just jump and relax.
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If seatbelts were so effective in saving lives, why use airbags and crumple zones? 😉
 
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