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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Except water becomes incredibly hard if being hit with too much speed. If there's vegetation next to it and you're at (or close to) terminal velocity you might want to land there instead. There are confirmed cases of people surviving a fall into vegetation after their parachutes didn't open.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just watched the new Jurassic Park movie yesterday and a guy falls 500 feet into a shallow river and is completely unhurt so now I don't know who to believe

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Believe your eyes not what some dumbass online says

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

How are they supposed to do that, push someone out of an airplane "for scientific purposes" to see what happens?

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