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They say falling onto water from high altitude is like hitting concrete, that
is,
unless you have this pointy hat, that fits your shoes perfectly, to create a
much sharper end to pierce through water, thus, softening the collision .
A fall from an airplane to water with nothing but a small
metal hat should
be
survivable.
Related to this, I was also wondering, if this would work out for someone
falling onto ground, if we used a very long pointy end, made of a strong
material like uranium to pierce through soil decelerating body gradually
rather than instantaneously... but that wouldn't work as a hat, for sure.
100 feet platform shoes
100_20feet_20platform_20shoes
All made up [DenholmRicshaw, Feb 02 2022]
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A human pile driver. What could possibly go wrong?
Perfect halfbaked proposal. Snack on this [+] |
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Better to fall feet first I would of thought |
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Check out 100 feet platform shoes - see link |
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It has back of the envelope calculations and everything |
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+ quite halfbaked, but why limit it to a hat? All
pointy solutions should be pointy hat, pointy shoes,
pointy gloves…to work no matter what direction
your body is falling! |
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I'm sure we've done "use pointy thing into water instead of
parachute" before, but I can't find it. I might try looking... |
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// Pointy shoes, pointy gloves…to work no matter what direction your
body is falling! // |
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Principle of pointyness is worth exploring, yes. |
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This idea is about practicality of taking that hat to an airplane, and,
I
guess, protecting the upper body. Saying "pointy gloves or shoes"
doesn't
take care of one's groin - you've got to explain the mechanism of how
those shoes or gloves would transform to protect the rest of the body, or
it's magic. |
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There is one negative effect that I'm worried though -- something that
point would make you pick up larger terminal velocity, that would work
against us. |
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Would the Prussian pointy hats of WW1 work, or would they be "too pointy"? |
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So we're proposing to cross a pickelhaube with a cricket box,
in the hope of surviving falls from a height? |
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If we're worried about terminal velocity, we might want to
commit to landing on one extremity in particular, put the
spike on that one, and then wear flamboyant raupenhelms on
all the others. |
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