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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 15:02:27 2019 No.11099045 View Reply Original Report

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Would there be any conceivable way of reliably saving someone who's falling at terminal velocity?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 15:03:01 No.11099047 Report

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>>11099045
Fly down to them, grab them, and slowly decrease their velocity. Like how superman does it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 15:03:23 No.11099049 Report

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>>11099045

i wonder how much damage you'd sustain falling into a 100 meter deep container of packing peanuts

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 15:04:46 No.11099052 Report

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>>11099045
Match velocity then divide impulse at reasonable rate

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 15:15:00 No.11099070 Report

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>>11099045
a parachute.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 15:21:40 No.11099096 Report

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>>11099047
Not to be that guy but Superman's got a passive telekinesis ability that augments his strength. This is how he can pick up buildings and airplanes without tearing through them like he should if you rested the weight of a structure on hand sized points.
Stupid comic book retcon wank, I know, but if you're using him as a source for your thought experiment might as well be accurate.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 15:24:21 No.11099101 Report

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sure, just make the world a trampoline

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 16:39:14 No.11099275 Report

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>>11099045
>Would there be any conceivable way of reliably saving someone who's falling at terminal velocity?
Spray them with a firehose from below.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 16:40:43 No.11099279 Report

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>>11099045
A parachute?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:21:39 No.11099388 Report

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>>11099045
50-80 m/s?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:25:10 No.11099397 Report

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>>11099388
if you have enough time it's doable
if they spider out and you pencil you'll fall faster eventually once you pass close to them spread out and slow up then grab onto each other and prepare to use your parachute

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:28:56 No.11099405 Report

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>>11099045
If you had an extremely deep vat with a liquid that has a density gradient where it is minimally dense at the top, and maximally dense at the bottom, would they be able to pencil into it (minimum damage from breaking surface tension) and then slow down without getting killed?

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:32:35 No.11099412 Report

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A ginormous net of Dyneema. Air pistons to prevent a bounce.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:33:03 No.11099414 Report

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>>11099405
This is what gas giants are
Except the atmosphere constituents and temperature differences will kill you

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:38:41 No.11099429 Report

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>>11099405
you'd drown then

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El Arcón Mon 28 Oct 2019 17:44:02 No.11099440 Report

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>>11099045
you mean like a parachute?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 22:02:09 No.11100120 Report

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>>11099096
Only in Byrne Supes. Not in modernity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2019 23:54:39 No.11100507 Report

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Some stuntman wingsuited into a pile of cardboard boxes that collapsed on impact.
Im sure you could do that even without an wingsuit given enoth crush space

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 00:00:49 No.11100527 Report

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You could have some high speed, high power drone catch them with a net then just take them to safety.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 00:11:45 No.11100574 Report

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>>11099045
Just make sure you land in water. People jump off the golden gate bridge all the time and survive. Trained parachuters are told to guide themselves towards water if their parachutes fail. I’m pretty sure nobody has died falling into water unless they happened to hit something in the water like a rock.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 11:14:48 No.11101995 Report

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>>11099045
create an updraft that would slow down the velocity until the person floats at above 20ft

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 12:31:20 No.11102064 Report

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>>11099045
Use a large drone to accelerate down to them capture them in a net and then engage the rotors to gradually slow descent.
This might actually work as an university engineering project
release a doll with an accelerometer from the air and test whether you can build and programme a drone that can catch them as they fall and doesn't exceed a given acceleration range.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 20:26:36 No.11103003 Report

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>>11100574
Are u kidding? People bust up their insides horribly when they hit water at high speed at any angle other than a pencil dive. That water slaps you and ruptures all your shit. Then u drown when u cant overcome your exploded kidneys, liver and broken ribs

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 20:38:33 No.11103020 Report

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>>11099049
There is a very obvious way of>>11099049
finding out the answer to that question, Anon

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 20:40:46 No.11103024 Report

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>>11103003
bro what will you even do living with exploded kidneys and liver?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 20:59:41 No.11103044 Report

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>>11099045

Take a copy of their brain before they do something dangerous. Build a new body if they die.

This approach will save you in any situation.

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 21:15:56 No.11103079 Report

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fall_survivors

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Anonymous Tue 29 Oct 2019 21:16:29 No.11103080 Report

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>>11099045
Thoughts and prayers buddy.

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