If a man gets trained to jump uninjured from heights incrementing meter by meter....

[Fritzo]

If you bend a glass mirror very slowly, could you fold it in half without it breaking?

You actually could do this, but it would take decades.

 

[tboo]

In the end, physics always wins.

 

[Blieb]

Video of skydiver from earlier link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45VtzmtA_C0

 

[Puppies04]

Video of skydiver from earlier link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45VtzmtA_C0

While he is very luckily to not be seriously injured or dead that isn't falling without a parachute, that is falling with half a parachute.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think once you get past 1 or 2 meters, then training is going to take it's toll on the person's knees and ankles... Over time, they will be less and less able to tolerate the jumps over time.

Nobody could fall from 20 meters and "land" in such a way that it could be considered a controlled landing.

 

[SillyOReilly]

People have survived falls from MUCH higher than 30 meters, so yes.

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.

 

[Howard]

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.

It's not the sudden stop that kills you, it's the trauma experienced by your organs.

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[TechBoyJK]

I think once you get past 1 or 2 meters, then training is going to take it's toll on the person's knees and ankles... Over time, they will be less and less able to tolerate the jumps over time.

Nobody could fall from 20 meters and "land" in such a way that it could be considered a controlled landing.

This was kind of my thought. I used to do gymnastics and like anything that can cause problems, moderation is key. My coach would always have us do something that 'pushed' the envelope every practice, but practice was 1-2 days a week, tops, and it was only if we were in good health.

But yes training might help the subject take the fall better, but doing the fall all the time, with the distance increasing, is actually going to do more harm than good.

It would be better to train for the fall at a shorter distance, and have the subject take the larger fall once, but confidently, and AFTER a period of rest so that he's in peak form to take it.

Taking the fall, increasing the distance, especially without rest/healing, is actually the worst way to go about it.

 

[CraKaJaX]

will the airplane take off?

 

[WHAMPOM]

Do you think it is ever possible he can fall from an height of 20-30 meters and survive?

Lets say he has ten years to get trained and all the drugs and treatments to mitigate the side effects of this training. All he has to do is practice the jump day by day gradually increasing the height for a period of ten years. Is it possible for him to achieve even an impossible fifty meters?

Why of course, stunt doubles do it all the time, of course they make sure as hell to hit the giant air filled mattress.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

It's not the sudden stop that kills you, it's the trauma experienced by your organs.

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I mean technically, per the laws of physics, don't your organs only become half as close to your internal lining? ()

 

[videogames101]

People can jump from pretty absurd heights, however 30 meters is pushing it a little far.