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Re: [tyify] How high can you fall from without debilitating injury?:
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sspssp
Jan 31, 2010, 4:12 AM
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tyify wrote: Human are kinda like cats to certain degree. A cat thrown out of a 1-2 story window will land without injury/minimal injury...However you throw a cat out of a 3 story window and its almost guarnteed to be injured/killed. A cat thrown out a 4-upwards story window will survive with minimal injury. The cat at 3 stories doesn't have enough time to right itself for the landing. The cat at 4 up stories has time and can absorb the shock by landing on its feet. The reason is that when you have time to prepare for the landing you can make it a lot better.
The concept is sound but I call BS on your numbers. I remember seeing a documentary (on all sorts of animal abilities) and they held cats upside down (by their legs) and dropped from the height of the ceiling and the cat landed feet first. The ceiling may have been higher than 8 feet, but no way it was 3 or 4 stories...
But I can vouch from personal experience that falling 25 feet and landing on your side results in debilitating injury. (Wish I had been a cat...)
(This post was edited by sspssp on Jan 31, 2010, 4:13 AM)
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