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Going rag-doll my ***, this is how drunks fall from 5 stories and live.
2005-11-15, 8:12 PM #1
http://www.studentbmj.com/issues/02/12/news/446a.php
omnia mea mecum porto
2005-11-15, 8:15 PM #2
Heh, I had no idea beer had silicon in it.
Stuff
2005-11-15, 8:17 PM #3
Fake jubblies are big kegs just waiting to be TAPPED!
Think while it's still legal.
2005-11-15, 8:29 PM #4
That's silicone, not silicon.
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2005-11-15, 8:32 PM #5
I know, I'm being silly....silly pants.
Think while it's still legal.
2005-11-15, 8:32 PM #6
I had no idea bones required silicon either.

So... is beer better for your bones than milk?
2005-11-15, 9:13 PM #7
Originally posted by Jon`C:
I had no idea bones required silicon either.

So... is beer better for your bones than milk?

It appears silicon helps in the process of calcification like boron does. So, without calcium, silicon is worhtless bone-health wise...so I'd say it's a matter of balance.
omnia mea mecum porto
2005-11-15, 10:38 PM #8
so "Milk *and beer* do the body good."
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2005-11-15, 10:45 PM #9
Which is why this man will make millions.
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2005-11-16, 9:29 AM #10
On a semi-related topic, I've heard stories of people falling from airplanes at 30,000ft and surviving the fall. How is this possible? How do some people turn into red jelly, while others get up and walk away?!?!
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2005-11-16, 10:17 AM #11
what? I have a hard time believing that anyone could fall nearly six miles and "get up and walk away"...
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2005-11-16, 10:21 AM #12
Originally posted by Sol:
On a semi-related topic, I've heard stories of people falling from airplanes at 30,000ft and surviving the fall. How is this possible? How do some people turn into red jelly, while others get up and walk away?!?!


Sounds like urban legends to me. I don't think anyone would survive such a drop.
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2005-11-16, 10:26 AM #13
I could almost see it happening if you passed out from lack of oxygen (such that your body was completely limp), and then you landed in a forest with plenty of stuff to break your fall... Terminal velocity is less than 200 MPH, so as long as your hit a bunch of little branches that slowly decelerate you, it'll hurt like a son of a *****, but you might not break any bones. In which case it should be possible to get up and walk away.
Stuff
2005-11-16, 10:33 AM #14
Angle of impact plays a role as well. A man survived a failed chute deployment by landing in a corn field at an angle.
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2005-11-16, 11:59 AM #15
Quote:
Nick Alkemade was a tail gunner for an Royal Air Force AVRO Lancaster Bomber during World War II who is notable for surviving a "chuteless jump".

On March 23, 1944, Alkemade's plane was attacked by a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 fighter plane and began to spiral out of control. Because his parachute was in the cabin, Alkemade opted to jump from the aircraft, preferring his death to be quick.

Alkemade fell from 18,000 feet to the ground below. His fall was broken by pine trees and a soft snow cover on the ground. He was able to move his arms and legs and suffered only a sprained leg.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

Quote:
Vesna Vulović (Serbian: Весна Вуловић) (born 3rd January 1950) retains the Guinness Book of Records world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (33,000 feet).

The fall occurred on January 26, 1972, over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Émigré Croat terrorists (Ustaša) had placed a bomb on board JAT Yugoslav Flight 364. The explosion tore the DC-9-32 to pieces, but Vulović survived. She remained strapped into her flight attendant's seat in the tail section of the plane, which remained attached to the washrooms. The assembly struck the snow-covered flank of a mountain.

Strangely, the 22-year old wasn't even scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another stewardess named Vesna.

Vulović was the only survivor on the flight and not only lived to tell about it but continued working for JAT at a desk job following her full recovery from injuries which included a fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken vertebrae, one of which was crushed and left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She regained the use of her legs only after several months of successive surgeries.

Vulović was awarded the Guinness Record title at a ceremony by Paul McCartney. She later became a national hero in Yugoslavia in the 1970s.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovic
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2005-11-16, 12:25 PM #16
Originally posted by Sol:
On a semi-related topic, I've heard stories of people falling from airplanes at 30,000ft and surviving the fall. How is this possible? How do some people turn into red jelly, while others get up and walk away?!?!


It's not the long fall... It's the sudden stop... ;)
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2005-11-16, 1:33 PM #17
Watching the History Channel the other day, they had a special on the Allied Mission to attack various German dams during WWII with the cylindrical bouncing bombs. In any case, one of the bombers was hit. One of the crewmembers manage to jump out, but the bomber was so low to the ground that he didn't have time to deploy his chute. It was still high enough to hurt him, but no 33,000 feet. In any case, he managed to survive the jump and evaded the Germans for a week before he was captured and became a POW.
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2005-11-16, 3:02 PM #18
Highest surviving fall is not a reason that I would want to use to get into the Guinness book of World Records.
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2005-11-16, 6:06 PM #19
Holy s***! People surviving a fall of miles? That blows my mind.

*applauds Daeron*

You learn something everyday.
2005-11-16, 6:12 PM #20
Terminal velocity isn't that high, and if some lands in something soft i.e. a snowbank chances are very high for survival.

And babies are even more resilient, they bounce!
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2005-11-17, 1:33 PM #21
Originally posted by Ewoklover:
Terminal velocity isn't that high, and if some lands in something soft i.e. a snowbank chances are very high for survival.

People die from falling out of bed.
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2005-11-17, 1:56 PM #22
Only if it's the top bunk. ;)
nope.
2005-11-17, 2:19 PM #23
Buncha pine needles and 10 ft of snow, that'd be nice :).
2005-11-18, 3:10 PM #24
How about water? Like an ocean or something?
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2005-11-18, 3:18 PM #25
Unless you perform a really good dive, water will kill you easily.
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2005-11-19, 10:16 PM #26
Originally posted by Jepman:
Sounds like urban legends to me. I don't think anyone would survive such a drop.


Jesus would.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2005-11-19, 11:28 PM #27
Originally posted by Echoman:
How about water? Like an ocean or something?


Due to surface tension, there's almost no difference between hitting the water at terminal velocity and hitting a brick wall.
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2005-11-20, 7:34 AM #28
Originally posted by Krokodile:
Jesus would.


But jesus isn't human. He's holyness in a box.
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2005-11-20, 1:13 PM #29
Plumetting toward water would suck, cuz you'd be tempted to curl up and shy away from it, but that's just suicide. You'd have to try to pull off that perfect dive, but... that'd be nerve wracking as hell, angling into it and facing it.

Whooo-eeee.
2005-11-20, 1:20 PM #30
Originally posted by Roach:
People die from falling out of bed.


People survive from falling 30,000 feet onto solid ground.
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2005-11-21, 1:47 PM #31
Originally posted by Freelancer:
People survive from falling 30,000 feet onto solid ground.

I'm not trying to deny such things happen, I'm denying the rate of survival is high.
omnia mea mecum porto
2005-11-21, 5:42 PM #32
Originally posted by Roach:
I'm not trying to deny such things happen, I'm denying the rate of survival is high.



You lie! To prove you wrong, I will jump at 30K feet out of a plane onto New York city!
2005-11-21, 5:42 PM #33
yippeee
2005-11-21, 7:32 PM #34
Originally posted by kyle90:
Heh, I had no idea beer had silicon in it.



Look at any picture in the picture thread. You'll clearly see that Silicon has beer in HIM!

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