09-18-2019, 11:24 PM | #21 |
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Re: Murphy's rules: How to survive a fall
It doesn't inherently have a low terminal velocity, it just tends to occur in small droplets and it isn't solid so it gets spread out by air resistance. If you put it in a container so it doesn't spread out, a person-sized bladder of water has similar terminal velocity to a person, a larger or better streamlined object has a higher terminal velocity.
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09-18-2019, 11:27 PM | #22 |
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09-18-2019, 11:31 PM | #23 | |
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09-19-2019, 07:25 AM | #24 |
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Re: Murphy's rules: How to survive a fall
No, thermite burns for too long. A (very) small charge of plastic explosives should do much better.
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09-19-2019, 09:57 AM | #25 |
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Re: Murphy's rules: How to survive a fall
Easier to just have it in a container that ruptures on impact.
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09-19-2019, 02:33 PM | #26 |
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Re: Murphy's rules: How to survive a fall
There was one person who fell out of an aeroplane without a parachute during WWII, who apparently survived because he was at exactly the right distance above a bomb going off that it slowed his fall by just the right amount. Blanking on the source, though it fits a cinematic setting even if I can't be totally sure that it really happened.
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09-19-2019, 02:45 PM | #27 | |
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09-19-2019, 02:54 PM | #28 | |
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I also kind of wonder if there's a Murphy's Rule that would allow one to miss the ground when falling, like in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy setting (Book Four, I think).
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09-19-2019, 03:07 PM | #30 |
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Re: Murphy's rules: How to survive a fall
Surviving the fall is amazing enough. But surviving those injuries in 1943 is even more so, IMO. That had to be a few successful Death Checks.
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