What would happen if you fell 100 feet?
Assuming you take a stable free fall position, like a skydiver, you would have just over 2.5 seconds to scream and think about what is about to happen. What happens after 2.5 seconds is you hit the ground at about 52 mph.What happens after that depends on your body position, the surface material you hit, and probably a lot of luck. If is concrete, then you're probably a goner. Like getting hit by a car going 52 mph. If it's 20ft of powdery snow, then you might survive with some broken bones or possibly few injuries. Cliff divers jump from higher than 100 ft and don't get hurt, because they know how to enter the water right.There is a story of a person who jumped off the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (70ft high) in the 1990s and hit feet first into the huge mud bar in the middle of the Potomac River. He stuck in up to his chest. It took time to get a boat there and dig him out, but he was almost completely unharmed. This was not actually an attempted suicide. This man's car broke down in the right hand lane on the bridge and there was no shoulder. He got out and opened the hood. He looked back and saw a truck coming full speed towards his car. There was high-speed traffic in the next lane or retaining wall at the side of the bridge. Just before the truck demolished his car, he did the only logical thing, he jumped.
What do people die from when falling from 40,000 feet?
People can die of different things even if they were to land on the same surface.Let’s say there’s a Person A and Person B somewhere. They’re very good friends and good people… They’re not stupid, but have this rather unfortunate tendency to not think things through. One thing led to another, and they’re now falling out of an airplane with no parachute.The plane they were travelling on was flying over the Pacific Ocean. Now, they fell out of the airplane together, and they’re falling at the same speed (terminal velocity), but they land differently.Person A belly flops, and his midsection hits the water. (Ouch. The mother of all bellyflops.) Pow, the tremendous force breaks many of his bones — his skull is fractured, many of his ribs are cracked and broken… He goes into shock from the pain, and that combined with the unbearable trauma kills him quickly. Or perhaps he lands on his head, and he dies instantly.Person B is more lucky than Person A (or less lucky?). He lands in the water feet-first, and both his legs break upon impact, perhaps along with a few vertebrae. Person B is not killed immediately, but he is knocked unconscious by the impact. Unable to swim to the surface for breath, he soon drowns.At terminal velocity (you’re virtually guaranteed this speed from a fall at 40,000 feet), there’s little difference whether you land on a body of water somewhere or flat ground.Unless, of course, you land on something narrow and pointy. Or something with lots of narrow and pointy ends. Say, for example, a tree in a forest…In which case you might find yourself impaled by branches.It’s certainly happened before.And the boy wasn’t even falling from all that high. Heck, he jumped onto the tree. It’ll be a lot uglier if you fall onto the tree. You might be skewered like meat on a stick, or you might be lucky and not be. Who knows?
My cat fell out my window and ran away?
The screen on the window popped out and my cat fell out. The drop was about 6 feet and he landed on our concrete driveway. He ran down the driveway and across the street by our neighbors house which is next to a small fielded area with trees. I haven't seen him since and this was about 8 hours ago. I have no idea if he hurt himself; I went looking for him over there but have not seen him. I live on a rather busy street with a speed limit of about 30 mph. I am worried that if he does try to come back he'll get hit. He is neutered and declawed and about 5 years old weighs about 20 lbs. a very large silver spotted tabby. I am very worried. I let my neighbor know about my missing cat but he's rarely home. What can I do?
What would happen if you jumped out of a car going 55 MPH?
Heh. I actually did this. Oh my, what a story. Without the incriminating details, I jumped out of the back of a moving pickup truck going about 60. Seemed like a good idea at the time. I actually got hurt very little, some scrapes and bruises, and yes, tuck and roll. There was no other traffic around to run me over. I did, however, tear every tendon and ligament in my left ankle and spent a couple months on crutches/splint/cast and all that. Hurt off and on for years. My left ankle is still kinda weird looking, 30 years later. All works fine tho.I also, a few years later went over the handlebars of a bike going about 30. I landed on the left side of my chest, mostly. Terrible road rash on my face and chest, and a broken rib. THAT was a trip. I remember I had enough time for my brain to go "oh fuck" and that was it. Thank god was right outside of apartments where a nurse lived, and she talked me down from being in shock. I don't really remember hitting the ground, or staggering over to the curb, I do, but very hazily. I'm sure that the shock part.I guess I should count myself luckily in both cases that worse didn't happen. I was lot more flexible in my early twenties tho, and had, of course, pre-medicated myself.
Why don't insects die when they fall from long idstances?
This is because of the relationship between mass, area and strength. A light object, such as a beetle, has a large surface area in comparison to its mass, therefore accelerates more slowly and reaches a lower maximum velocity when it lands. Add to that, that the strength/weight ratio in an insect is much higher than a human. It would require a greater force than that generated by the fall to break or damage the insects body. The same applies to larger animals. It is apparently possible to drop a mouse down a mine shaft without it causing harm. Larger animals like us, have a lower strength/weight ratio, and less surface area for a given mass, so not only do we accelerate faster and thus hit the ground harder, the impact force is sufficient to break our limbs. Legs strong enough to resist a rigid (no knee bending) jump from 20m high would not only have to be huge, but would also transmit the shock throughout the body, causing other damage. Throw a ping pong ball at someone, and it is very difficult to do so hard enough to cause pain, as the object has low density, high drag etc Throw a similar size stone, and it will hurt. higher density means the speed of the throw slows down at a lower rate, so it hits faster.