If i dropped from any height and landed on my feet would i definately survive?

Question

minus being paralyized.

Answer 1

The answer is easy. It is all to do with energy dissipation. If you drop from "any high" height, you will accelerate to a terminal speed, I think it is in the region of 230km/h, and you must only be able to get rid of this kinetic energy when you hit the ground. If there is no "net" taking up the energy, your body must take the punch. Hit an egg with a hammer and see what happen. You can turn the egg every which way you want, the egg will not be able to get rid of the energy you put into the hammer. You body is not built to take huge amounts of energy and "get rid of it" safely. If you land on your feet from "any high" height, the only way your body can get rid of the energy is by breaking your legs, your pelvis, your back, your ribs and obviously liquidizing the softer parts of your body in the same instance. Your head will still hit the ground at about 120km/h and the egg and hammer from above come to mind. "Rest in Pieces" will be written on your tombstone.

There do exist cases where people dropped from aeroplanes and survived but it is usually a case of landing in some trees where the branches will break and decelerate you to acceptable speeds where your body is able to handle the "landing energy".

Look at the way skydiving is trained to get a better "way of landing" if you get to drop from "any" height. You are taught to land on your feet but immediately drop on your side and make a roll on the ground. You take the downward speed and displace it to a sideways movement. I am not sure if you can be quick enough to do this at terminal speed. If you can work out or achieve a very flat angle when you are falling, maybe achieve it by getting a forward movement in you fall and hitting the ground on a slope going away from you, and then rolling till you stop you may have a chance.

But it is better to not drop from high places except if you are a stuntman and you have all the nets, boxes etc. to dissipate the energy for you to be able to walk away in one piece.

Think about this : If you are in a plane going down at 200km/h and you are able to jump upwards at 200km/h just before the plane hits the ground, you will effectively be at 0km/h, standing still. Will it be possible to walk away from the plane or will the rest of the plane still going at 200km/h kill you instantly ?

Answer 2

It probably would depend on how quick they could get you to the hospital.

The trauma of the broken legs and hips would be pretty severe.

There have been instances where people have taken some pretty incredible falls and lived, but it was due to some extenuating circumstances.

What you land on is going to depend on your survivabiltiy I would think. If you can be quick enough to roll with the fall, you might only wind up with a broken leg or two even falling as much as 30 feet. But if you land on concrete, the odds really go down from there.

Answer 3

Lol, I like how you threw in the last part. Well from any height, no. If you dropped from a high rise, and just happened to land on your feet, you of course would break numerous bones, and pretty much screwed, and by screwed, I mean not survive. Perhaps you should be more specific.

Answer 4

You might wish that you hadn't survived: the pain would be so great.

I was at that little bar at the top of the Space Needle in Seattle. The bartender pulled out some information about people who had jumped and survived, for a little while. There are now suicide wires up there.

Answer 5

You may or may not survive. There is a thing called Deceleration Injury.

Injury to intra-abdominal structures can be classified into 2 primary mechanisms of injury–compression forces and deceleration forces. Deceleration forces cause stretching and linear shearing between relatively fixed and free objects. These longitudinal shearing forces tend to rupture supporting structures/organs at the junction where they attach within our bodies. It is not uncommon in a sudden deceleration (ie: car wreck or fall) for the liver or aorta to be torn from its attachment point causing a rip in the tissue. This causes potentially massive internal bleeding and death relatively quickly. When someone dies of "internal injuries", this is usually what they mean.

If I recall from my training, a person has a 60% chance of dying from a 20 foot fall onto a hard surface.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

if you dropped from a height of o.oooo1 m that is obvious you will survive next time specify the problem

Answer 8

Depends on the surface you land on.
Cotton is extremely soft, so if you landed in a cotton feild, you just might live

Answer 9

You sound like you want to be a cat.......if you jumped out of an airplane at say 5000 feet and landed on your feet....your knees would probably be protruding from your brain.......this is not a real bright question..............

Answer 10

No. From a sufficient height, you would still die. And crush your legs.