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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
"Shattered pelvis" was in there so shattered bones would appear to be possible.
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Some bones being shattered is certainly possible - you'll also have that happen in high speed collisions and the like. JulianLW was insisting that in such a fall, the only possible result was that
all the bones were shattered into tiny fragments, and all the internal organs would be basically liquefied.
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Originally Posted by JulianLW
And that body bag probably dispersed a good bit of the force as well.
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That strikes me as unlikely. There's a heavy-duty, extra large bodybag on Amazon that lists its thickness as 12 mil. A mil is apparently 0.001". If said bodybag were made of Improved Ballistic Polymer, it would provide a whopping DR 0.9 against cutting/piercing, and against the crushing involved in a fall only DR 0.36. Heck, if it were made of TL12 Energy Cloth, it would provide all of DR 2.88.
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Originally Posted by JulianLW
I think most of you guys are dramatically underestimating the damage of such a fall. The actual results of injuries such as gunshots and terminal falls are almost never to be seen anywhere in public, so people's notions about the effects are inevitably distorted by depictions in movies and TV.
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I believe you are dramatically overestimating the damage of such a fall.