How high can you fall without dying?

[SOLIDKREATE]

This high:  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović

[Bremspropeller]

There's reasonable doubt whether she *fell* the entire altitude. She was probably embedded in part of the fuselage.

 

There's also some probability that the airplane disintegrated at lower altitude than suspected.

[bzc3lk]

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/human-bomb-jumped-stricken-b-17-without-parachute_survived-rr-m.html

 

http://ww2awartobewon.com/wwii-articles/nicholas-alkemade-no-parachute-lived/

Edited April 26, 2019 by bzc3lk

[Dutch2]

Think it is better to wait on Raaaaaaaaaid scientific explanation about this topic ? 

[Legioneod]

The human body can absorb some extreme punishment but it can be destroyed very easily as well.

 

Sometimes there is no logical explanation why some people survive "impossible" things while others don't.

 

I've heard a story of a man who was sucked into a tornado and thrown over two miles from his home, he somehow survived and made a full recovery.

[[PFR]Sarpalaxan]

Well actually, Terminal velocity isn't a constant but the equilibrium between Air resistance and Gravity. That's why the gay jumping from the edge of Space went Supersonic falling. But if you try to fall as slowly as possible I figure that you will end up somewhere around this mark. The rest of the equation would be how much time you have to decelerate. Concrete will give you not much time and stops you almost instantly while getting lucky and falling through thin branches of a Tree ant then on an overgrown Forrest floor does it a bit more gently. Since there may be a limit on falling speed the upper limit would might be a point where the air is so thin that you will fall fast enough to experience Re-entry heat. Also you might suffocate without the right equipment. This would render falling from any height with the right gear and landing survivable. So to answer the question of the title of the thread. Yes.

[bzc3lk]

10 minutes ago, [GG]Sarpalaxan said:

 That's why the gay jumping from the edge of Space went Supersonic falling.

 

Do gays have a higher terminal velocity ?

Edited April 29, 2019 by bzc3lk

[[PFR]Sarpalaxan]

5 hours ago, bzc3lk said:

 

Do gays have a higher terminal velocity ?

Well, I mean. The Airbreak deploys under different conditions. But yes, I meant guy. Dam you spell check for not picking up on that.

[Bremspropeller]

6 hours ago, [GG]Sarpalaxan said:

Concrete will give you not much time and stops you almost instantly while getting lucky and falling through thin branches of a Tree ant then on an overgrown Forrest floor does it a bit more gently.

 

Spoiler

https://www.slavorum.org/belarusian-pilot-crashes-and-gets-impaled-by-tree-poses-for-pictures-and-shouts-to-doctors-i-am-groot/

 

[RhumbaAzul]

To  sum up? It's not the 'falling' that kills you...it's the landing.

[Legioneod]

53 minutes ago, RhumbaAzul said:

To  sum up? It's not the 'falling' that kills you...it's the landing.

In most cases yes, the sudden stop.

[Cynic_Al]

On 4/29/2019 at 10:19 AM, bzc3lk said:

 

Do gays have a higher terminal velocity ?

 

I doubt it; they just handle re-entry differently.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

In mountain rescue I’ve heard the figure of 35 feet being the 50/50 mark of survivability. Depends on angle and surface of course. Landing on your head on concrete is certainly different than landing on your back on manzanita bushes. FTR I fell 35 feet and survived.  One of my rescuers related the 50/50 comment. I was very broken but overall still in tact at the end. One major surgery and about two years to be fully “normal” again.

[LukeFF]

About a 18 months ago I went through a training class to become a cell-tower climber (which I completed but ended up not pursuing as a career). Anyways, one of the axioms the instructor told us was that (if you fell from more than ~40 feet) you were fired before you hit the ground. Funny, but true.

 

We all climbed, on "final exam day" to that first set of antennas. Quite nothing like climbing up a slightly-wet cell tower, with even more rain on the horizon. Yeah, you're pretty doggone high up when you climb up that far.

 

[Feathered_IV]

You can fall as high as you like without dying. 

[Bremspropeller]

On 5/2/2019 at 9:00 PM, LukeFF said:

which I completed but ended up not pursuing as a career

 

That's a career sounding as "great" a poo diver in a sewage tank anyway. Probably pays well due to the risk...

 

A wise choice you made there.

I'd be scared *beep*-less up there - without any weather ganging up on me.

[LukeFF]

20 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Probably pays well due to the risk...

 

A wise choice you made there.

 

Yes, the pay is alright, if you don't mind the long stretches away from home and yes, the risk that you are always one mistake away from eternity. If I'd had to do it for work I would have, but right towards the end of the training I finally got a phone call back from another company I'd applied to, and suffice it to say my feet are now on the ground, indoors, all day. ? 

 

All that said, I do have tremendous respect for the guys who do climb those towers for a living and do it well. It's not for the faint of heart.

Edited May 5, 2019 by LukeFF