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Pa. skydiver slips from harness and dies

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Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Hasn't there been a couple of cases where people have managed to be completely unharmed, as long as their body was completely limp when they hit the ground?
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Terminal velocity is about 120 MPH. Hitting the ground at 120 MPH with your face is not conductive to living.
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I feel really bad for the people in the world trade center. How fast were they going?
 
i'm going skydiving for the first time this weekend YAYYYYY (if you see another article: dumb college kid dies in skydiving accident) that was me and give me some kind of cool memorial with squirrels and techno 😀
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Hasn't there been a couple of cases where people have managed to be completely unharmed, as long as their body was completely limp when they hit the ground?
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Terminal velocity is about 120 MPH. Hitting the ground at 120 MPH with your face is not conductive to living.
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Thought it was closer to 180mph?
 
Originally posted by: RBachman
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Shadowknight
Hasn't there been a couple of cases where people have managed to be completely unharmed, as long as their body was completely limp when they hit the ground?
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Terminal velocity is about 120 MPH. Hitting the ground at 120 MPH with your face is not conductive to living.
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Thought it was closer to 180mph?
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It's both. In the typical skydiving position of chest down, arms and legs spread it's about 120. If you tuck in and go head first you reduce your drag enough to reach 180 or so. A real expert than can achieve a perfect body position can hit about 200.
 
Terminal velocity of a human skydiver is about 120MPH.

At that speed, it doesn't matter if you hit dirt or water. Water is as hard as concrete at that speed.

But, yeah. Skydiving must be a lot of fun, but there's always that nagging thought at the back of my head whenever I consider it: What if both parachutes fail?
 
Everyone talking about pain is retarded. The fvkcing fear and utter scarred-shitless feeling would be much worse IMO. Atleast the pain is gone in a fraction of a second. The scarred-shitless-im-going-to-die feeling lasts for what like a minute?
 
Originally posted by: Vich
Everyone talking about pain is retarded. The fvkcing fear and utter scarred-shitless feeling would be much worse IMO. Atleast the pain is gone in a fraction of a second. The scarred-shitless-im-going-to-die feeling lasts for what like a minute?
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:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: soydios
But, yeah. Skydiving must be a lot of fun, but there's always that nagging thought at the back of my head whenever I consider it: What if both parachutes fail?
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It is best to not even bother thinking about it. 😉

 
Originally posted by: astrocase
Where's the video?
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Go rent that Charlie Sheen flick "Terminal Velocity". The acting is bad, but the girl is hawt and has that nice russian accent that we all love.
 
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