At What Height Does A Fall Become Fatal? DEBUNKED
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- If you’re trapped high up in a deadly predicament with only a great fall as a means of escape, should you take your chances with fall damage?
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In certain, extreme situations it might be preferable to take your chances with fall damage rather than face an even greater and more immediate danger - fire, bullets, explosions!
Join us as we investigate what sort of heights a person could fall from and and have a reasonable chance of survival?
#debunked #survivalmyths #howtosurvive
What is the maximum height you can jump?
What is the maximum height you can fall and still survive?
How high can you jump from without breaking a bone?
How high can a human safely fall?
Can you survive a 20 foot fall?
What is the maximum height an adult human could fall from and safely land oh their feet?
At what height do falls become deadly?
How Far of a Fall Is Fatal?
What height is considered a severe fall?
At what height can you be injured in a fall?
At what height do most falls occur?
Why can't humans survive high falls?
At what height do falls become fatal?
At what height is a fall lethal?
What fall height is survivable?
What height are most fatal falls from?
CHAPTERS:
Common Falls
What height are most fatal falls from?
Terminal Velocity
Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion
Landing On Your Feet
Landing On Objects / Cars
How To Survive A Fall From Height
CREDITS:
Stu K - Researcher / Writer | Illustrator | Producer | Presenter
Jacob T - Researcher | Writer
Ross W - Illustrator | Editor | Animator
Robin M - Guest VO
MUSIC CREDITS
Epidemic Sounds
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Aim for the bushes.
Great advice from my favorite youtuber, thanks!
ok
@@jadentetzlaff1108 Thanks ☺
I thought the sharp rocks at the edge of the river were the best option, good to know to go to the bushes, thanks!
I will
This video came a the perfect time. I was just riding a train that had primed TNT in the car below me and I was debating about jumping off the train off the bridge. Thankfully I had enough time to pull out my computer and watch this video, use my iPhones measure app and do some quantum mechanics to calculate my survival chance of 0.00001% This will be my last message. Oh! and I subscribed.
🤣🤣🤣 I love this
There is still a chance
Similar situation here, but I fell from a plane.
So far from what I see, my prospects aren...
Bruhhh you forgot to like this video
😂
Ιm a survivor from a fall off the 4th floor around 13 or 14metres. I landed on my feet. The only mistake I made was that when I aimed the spot I closed my eyes and didn't try too land... fear of death took over me. That's why I completely destroyed my shoulder as well. It's almost two years but I walk and do most things quite sufficiently. I wish no other human being ever experience such a thing. It's one of those situations you wish you hadn't survived. The pain and the disability is hell on earth. Stay strong and lucky everybody. A broken survivor from Greece 👋💪🫶
Was it an accident or a su_cide attempt?
@bovedli accident my bro . My weight was fixed upon the exterior unit of an air condition and it detached from the wall. But I was stupid enough to do that half hanging from a window... so ...
i wonder why we don't do some falling exercises in school physical education classes... just learning to land and tuck your knees, maybe roll a little, may be life-saving. there should be some safe limits for practice, such as starting low from 1 metre or so, with some sports mats for cushioning, then advancing to higher heights and harder landing surfaces, just before injury is likely to occur.
this should be even more necessary for jobs/hobbies/activities that involve going up high places. any job that involves working with a ladder could use at least a one-day workshop where workers practice falling off a ladder. just learning to avoid falling head-first would save lives, while learning how to redirect yourself away from the worst landing spots could save days or weeks off recovery and huge medical bills.
pretty sure the highest risk jobs, like firemen, probably already have training for falling. why not just adapt their program to suit other jobs?
I fell 35 feet and hit the right side of my skull first.
@@lf8994 damn bro! I hope you full recovered! That must have been very frightening!
I like how people write insane falls that they experienced and survived but meanwhile when i was 5 years old I fell of a chair and wasn't able to eat or drink by myself for 3 months.
"kids are so tough"
I knocked a hole in my cheek at 3 yo. I tripped & fell causing my cheek to hit the corner of a dining room chair. After some stitches & in a little time I forgot all about it till it was time to eat.
I fell off a swing when I was like 4 (I was swinging on my belly and some kid trying to be nice gave my swing a push to get me going a little higher)... fell scalp first onto pebbles and tore my scalp. Had to get stitches. This is the earliest thing I remember.
I would doubt the truth of those stories
@@orphan-eater doubting Thomas, I hope you never have to experience anything like it. Before I started elementary school I tripped & fell & hit a chair knocking a hole in my cheek that went all the way thru. It took 3 stitches.
I have a total of 26 scars from stitches. One scar was from surgery when I was 1 yo took 13 stitches. Every other stitch was accidental.
I heard a story of a woman named Emma Carey, who survived a skydiving accident, falling from 14,000ft and her parachute didn’t deploy correctly. She landed face first and survived. I believe she suffered paralysis from the waste down but eventually regained her ability to walk. I actually first heard that story on “1000 Ways to Die” and they listed that story as “one way someone didn’t die but should have”. And I also just searched the story again to confirm. Truly miraculous.
Thanks for sharing I’ll look it up 👌We cover another sky diving survival story in this video as well as few other survival stories of people falling from planes ruclips.net/video/cCUIOcox9Ag/видео.htmlsi=rxLgcBcFfsYiJv8V
It’s bc the trees braced her fall
Vesna Vulović survived a 33,330 feet a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute in the 1950
@DebunkedOfficial two men fell without parachutes from b17 bombers during ww2 in separate incidents.
They apparently fell thru snow covered trees into deep snow.
Oth, I lost a great uncle to a fall off of a 2' ladder while he was cleaning the gutters.
@@macmcleod1188 Correct, we cover that in this video ruclips.net/video/cCUIOcox9Ag/видео.html as well as another who fell through the glass roof of a train station.
When I was in the Marine Corps, doing two weeks of desert training, I fell from a cliff, landing on my back. It didn't knock me unconscious and I didn't immediately feel anything bad. After about 20 seconds though I felt a desperate need to breathe. The wind had totally got knocked out me and I was trying my hardest to inhale. After about another 20 to 30 seconds I finally sucked in air like someone coming out of water. The Marines I was with used a rope to measure the distance I fell. 42+ feet. I walked away from it but found out 3 days later that I had 3 hairline fractures in my left 5th metatarsal. I was only able to walk on it because the doc HD bandaged it so tight. Amazingly I fell like a puzzle piece between several watermelon sized sharp rocks. If I'd fell on any of them I might not be writing this today.
So, Can you move normally now?
@@darkjakultimate6605 6 weeks later my foot was good as new. However 17 years later I was hurt in Iraq and am now a medically retired Iraqi war veteran. I try to make my limitations as invisible possible, spinal, shoulders, and nerve damage. As I age though... well I'm not getting younger and stronger. Life is good, though and if anyone asks how I'm doing I always tell them, Awesom As Always 😎
@@SeptemberMeadows i respect that, i hope you live your life well!
How long did you stay on profile? Do y'all call it that?
@@rhuttrho88 About six weeks. I was in a walking cast. Almost missed out on a deployment overseas because of it. Took the cast off a few days early and was fine.
The ambulance guy just picking up the patients was so funny 😂
“ambulance guy” dude really? :/
@@sadib4782 sorry I'm not that good in english so i dont know what they are called 😔, btw what's the proper name
@@vedanshgehlot4845 don’t be sorry, it’s totally okay :) i didn’t realize you weren’t a native english speaker and that’s my mistake. im very very sorry, i should have been more considerate. those of us who work on ambulances are called “paramedics” or “EMT”’s depending on our training level. paramedics and EMT’s do a very similar job, but paramedics can usually perform more complex medical treatments than EMT’s can. i hope this helped a bit, let me know if you have anymore questions ❤️
@@sadib4782Least ignorant American
YOINK
As always, we tend to concentrate on survivability , and ignore the other hazards. Paraplegic at 22 hardly sounds inviting
That's actually not true! Studies show that after two years they are about as happy as they were before! Sounds surprising, and there are surely some more vulnerable people that have a hard time adapting. But most paraplegics adapt quite well, might have moments when they think "well, now that situation really sucks!" but then they go on with their day.
dead at 22 sounds less inviting to me
@@stefanschneider3681 I'm aware of all that, and it's good that most victims adjust. But ask them if they'd rather not be crippled, I'm sure they'd say yes
@@acezargd2899 I'm not saying death is better. I'm saying society is concentrating on death statistics, and largely ignoring how much survivors have suffered. This was extreme during the pandemic. As long as you survived, everything was fine
You can still watch movies, kiss your loved ones, and using technology available to us you can communicate on the computer with speech to text, so you even write books. I mean it's not great but being dead is definitely worse (not to undermine the feelings of paraplegics who wish they were dead, just my opinion from the outside looking in)
Who else experiences 'call of the void' when they look down from really high up? 😬
very freaky 😵💫
I've heard of this but not experienced it myself, a strange phenomenon.
@@DebunkedOfficial As I understand it, our vision seems to be getting used to certain heights which we look down from regularly. If at some point we find ourselves in an unusually (to us) high place, our vision can play nasty tricks on us by trying to "recalibrate" to the new height. Also, there is always room for pre-adaptaion.
I didn't used to be like this but heights terrify me now. Mainly because I know I could jump off if I wanted to and I have to make myself stare at the end point of the bridge I'm on. The same with water I know would delete me. I could jump off and the prospect that I could scares me, if I am strapped in I am fine with heights.
@@simhthmss Such things on the brink of death are everywhere: road traffic (split second turn and a high velocity crash), other different fast or heavy objects, electricity sources, water deeper that 2 meters, poisonous and venomous organisms, chemicals, etc.
If these feelings affect your quality of life, you might want to seek professional help. Or if it's a minor issue, at least you can try thinking where in your past the fear appeared and switch to your state of mind where you don't care about such things. You can set up an imaginary switch in your mind to help you switch off an anxiety easier.
Not giving a damn about some aspects of the universe - is a choice. It's *always* available and can be pretty useful. You don't need straps to not care.
One of my ancestors' parachutes didn’t open during a military exercise (I’m not exactly sure, but it was around the 1960s/1970s). He fell from a height of around 10 km without any working parachute and landed in shrubbery. He broke both legs and hit his head but survived. Shortly after that crash, he became very paranoid. He started drinking and believed spies were after him, constantly shutting all blinds and thinking he was wiretapped. He hung himself a decade or so after the fall.
so sad
Plot twist, it was actually spies who sabotaged his parachute, and wiretapped his house. They finally got him a decade later and made it look like he did it. Rip
@@Hankblue Bro the best plot twist ever
The PSTD is insane, war literally has no benefits at all
@@Hankblue Bro, THATS WHAT I SAID TOO!
And it made a lot of sense (not the parachute part, but the wire tap and intel-gathering part), back then in the DDR, the ,,Stasi“ (spy agency) was after anyone with ,,wrong opinions“. They searched my parents flat once when they were on vacation, after someone heard a joke my dad made about the commi government, so it wouldn’t wonder me at all! But i know too little about the rest, sadly.
The animations in this episode were truly excellent! Well done, Mr. Animator!
Infographics show vibes
Just wanna say the way the characters move and their mischievous face especially is hilarious
These animations remind me of when I used to spend all my afternoons on various flash websites like Newgrounds watching super duper violent stick figure movies. I remember waiting 7 minutes per animation just to watch due to internet speeds at the time. Thanks for the unintended flashback!
I love how upbeat you sound about all this.
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It would be useful to know the maximum height one can survive landing in water.
It depends whether the water is still or moving. still water is like concrete temporarily after landing on it. if youve ever landed flat on your stomach or back, you know how much it can hurt
I’d say the fall is as survivable as landing on concrete, but the drowning afterwards is killer.
You could probably survive a 999,989 foot fall.
@@IHaveNoIdeaWhatsoever
you might have a better chance with a "pencil dive", while pointing your toes down. you will need to cross your legs during a pencil dive unless you want an involuntary wash of your insides
Place a water bucket and you can survive a fall from any height
In NYC someone fell on George Costanza's car from the top of the hospital and the hospital refused to pay for it.
True story.
I used to know a guy who was walking home after the pub, and a dude tried to commit suicide by jumping off the multistorey carpark on his route home.
This thing had about nine levels, and the dude jumped off the top, landing on the road in front of him.
He landing precisely on his feet, shattering his legs, and driving his thigh bones up through his hips, and into his lower abdomen.
The survived.
Everything pretty much below his diagram was wrecked, everything above it, including his arms and head were fine.
Dont know what he was depressed about but Im quietly confident he had more to feel bad about afterwards. Only now he couldnt get back to the top of the car park.
My brother survived a 50 foot fall from a tree. Yes, his fall was broken, by a shrub. He missed being impaled on a 2 foot tall, 2 inch diameter, spear-sharp stump by 6 inches. I watched the whole thing. He was 13, me 11.
Bro, just do an MLG ☠️
Forget 20, 30, 40, 50... feet. I survived a fall from 11,000 feet. More than two miles. I was completely unscathed. I landed on grass, in a sitting position, and was wearing normal clothes, and I walked away without so much as a bruise. All I had to help was a parachute.
If you're really scared you'll die from a fall, just move to canada. Surviving a 5 meter fall into powder is not only easy but fun. I would know. (Just make sure you dont jump into ice.)
According to Canada’s National Statistics Office almost two-thirds (65%) of Canada's land mass has annual snow cover for more than six months of the year, so you’d need to avoid heights the rest of the time 😉 Thanks for commenting and watching 👍
Of note, one can die from a ground level fall onto a normal floor. I worked in a trauma center for years and saw a substantial number of patients who were elderly and on blood thinners who tripped, fell to the floor, and hit their head. The cause of death was usually a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
11:55 *He plummeted onto a MOVIE CAR* 🚗🚧
"moving" 👌
He said "moving". I turned the volume up higher to hear it. It's harder to distinguish because it melts into the "k" of "car".
I know, it was just a meme about Hollywood movies 😅
When I was in high school someone slipped while walking up the bleachers in the gym they fell forward and hit the side of their head on the corner of the top bench and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital it’s crazy how people have fallen out of planes and lived yet all it takes is a solid hit in the wrong spot and you’re done
What you are wearing really does make a difference. That's why I never climb a ladder without my cape 😉
😂 Nice 🦸♂️👌
I fell 40ft landing on my feet chipping bones in both ankles tearing ligaments and tindents in both ankles and knees and right hip, and compressed herniated 7 disc's with two bulging. I feel I got off pretty easily.
The animations in this video are fantastic!! 👍🏾
9:35 I humbly believe that her helmet also had its role in reducing the chance of fatal outcome.
A teen age neighbor died after falling from his bed. His brother thought he just continued to sleep after falling.
That would make for a rude awakening 😂 ☠️
A man who sleeps on the floor will never fall out of bed
@@jon5161
I’ll tell that to my mother.
The old guys that die after missing the last step of the stairs are sand bagging our stats
What a fantasic video. The information is very interesting and very well presented. The animation is wonderful. I love that we don't see the head-landing (even though it's animation) by leaving it up to our imagination, you made it less grusome and yet, somehow, more so! Well done everyone involved in the making of this video!
Thanks for those kind words 😊 We’re glad it entertained and educated 👌
I'm falling at this exact moment and watching your video to get information and survive. Thank you!
How do it go? 🤔
@@DebunkedOfficial I guess not very well... 12 seconds passes quicker than one assumes.
Interesting video. My dad fell 38ft. Landed on his feet, and broke pretty much everything. Back, neck, legs and arms. Crazy that people can survive so much.
I can’t wait for the day when I use your advice!!😊
Well, that's a pretty damn high production video for falls, lol. Nicely done! The animations are great.
Thanks so much, we try our best with every video 😊
The ambulance animations in this are awesome.
lots of information, thank you.
Thank YOU for watching and commenting 👍 Glad you learnt something
Apparently the Nazis did unethical "scientific" experiments on this, by dropping people who they deemed undesirable from various heights to determine survivability. I'm sure that's not all they did in the name of science.
Thanks for the tutorial 👍
Thank you very much for massively adding to my fear of heights
Heights are not dangerous, no one has been harmed by them.
falling isn't very dangerous either.
But there's that sudden stop . . .
Aha let's see what gem you delivered this time ! 😁
I hope you are entertained and educated 🤞
So far really good ! And the hair is there 😄
@DebunkedOfficial Very much so. I do not plan on falling from a skyscraper anymore haha 😆
@@uncommonsimon5775 Glad to hear it!!!
I walked off of a ledge in the dark and fell about 1 meter. The body slam broke both of my arms and I'm going to be in pain of one sort or another for the rest of my life.
Yes, of course i watched this video to raise the chances of... survival.
"be very, very lucky" good advice. Will try that
"Vertical Deceleration Injuries" - was George Carlin a prophet or what?
“I won’t have to die, I’ll just pass away” 😅
Me wondering this video will come handy in the future 😂🫢
Always better to know than to not! Thanks for watching 👍
Never a disappointing video. Terrific.
Thank you so much 👍
Very valuable information for me.
Love your videos bro keep them up❤😅
Just because you hit rock bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there
These videos are awesome!
Your videos are so funny 😂😂. Can't believe they are actually educational as I watch
Thank you! I call them edutainment 😁
I used to jump off my roof onto the grass and roll from about 12ft, it stung my feet and never got hurt, but I was in my late 30s. I wouldn’t even considerate now in my late 60s. 😅
Maybe the maximum survived fall would have been interesting. Good job! I enjoy your videos.
Thanks! ☺️ The rock climber we covered is actually believed to be the highest freefall on to solid ground. There are lots of other examples of people falling from higher up from planes etc, which we cover in this video linked ruclips.net/video/cCUIOcox9Ag/видео.htmlsi=KZhY1mbfz4ax8Olc, but they either fell with something (the fuselage/seats etc) or they hit something on the way down (trees/a train station glass roof) slowing their final decent before hitting solid ground, so all very different types of falls to the more common ones we look at here 👍
At what height does falling into deep water become fatal?
If you cant swim, then I'd say 10cm.
It would depend how deep the water and angle of entry... landing flat would be same as landing on concrete. Water, like air, would only slow the velocity incrementally. Lots of people injure themselves by hitting swimming pool or ocean bottoms and many more by belly-flopping.
My grandpa fell from 6 meters in a little bush and suffered 0 damage no bruise scratch anything
There is no matter of distance that you can fall that will ever kill you.
What kills you is something getting in the way of you falling like say the ground.
The ground needs to get out of the way... oh wait, that's called orbit
1:33 Caught-in-or-between sounds pretty horrible, too. Ever seen that video of the guy getting pulled into an industrial lathe?
I enjoyed every moment of this. Was laughing out loud. Excellent production
Thank you very much 😊 I hope you learnt something new too 👍
Commenting for the sake of supporting this channel, lovely vid❤
Thank you very much 😊
No mention of the Guinness World record holder of the largest fall to survive? Sad.
The rock climber we cover is believed to be the highest freefall on to solid ground. There are lots of other examples of people falling from planes, which we cover in this video linked ruclips.net/video/cCUIOcox9Ag/видео.htmlsi=KZhY1mbfz4ax8Olc, but they either fell with something (the fuselage/seats etc) or they hit something on the way down (trees/a train station glass roof) slowing their final decent before hitting solid ground, so all very different types of falls to the more common ones we cover in our latest video. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
The smack of each animation fall is the funniest thing I've seen this morning 😂😂
Last year at the hotel i worked at, a woman got drunk and climbed the fire escape behind the building, tried to hang from a pipe and fell from the 4th floor.
The gas line to the kitchen broke some of her fall but severed her foot almost entirely off. One of her legs was SHATTERED, the other broken, broken pelvis and a few broken ribs. She managed to survive but will never be the same again.
The animations and sound effects are surprisingly hilarious in this one 😂
Lucky falling while dreaming doesn't count.😊
So not covering the subject of landing to water?
Because from certain height, water becomes like concrete.
very early i am , earlier than you i will be
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Wow cool hope your day goes terribly
Alright, Master Yoda.
Wait how thou?
@@thug2pac13 faster than you I was because better internet I have
OSHA does not have a “Fatal Four” ranking.
It’s actually called “focus four” recognizing that fatalities are not the only outcome worth preventing.
I had a fun tumble off a 24 foot ladder last October due to it flipping over as a result of improper placement. Managed to use the hand holding the ladder to monkey myself around to landing on my feet. Got away with some nasty bruises and an injured shoulder that's only now healed.
When we were kids, my sister fell out of a barn loft. Her instinctive reaction was to try to brace herself, and she badly broke both her arms and dislocated both of her wrists. About a year later, I fell at the same place. My instinctive reaction was to try to grab the beam as it passed by. No hope of grabbing it really, but it put me in perfect position to land on my backside. It knocked the wind out of me and I couldn't sit down for a few days, but I was otherwise fine. Didn't even fracture my tailbone. Position really is everything.
Interesting, thanks for sharing 👍
"Relax bro, there's no fall damage"
It's only the last meter that is dangerous.
What's astounding is the heights from which military personnel have fallen WITHOUT A PARACHUTE yet survived. WW2 had a few cases.
We actually wrote a section on this but instead focused on falls that are more common, and we already covered it in another video here ruclips.net/video/cCUIOcox9Ag/видео.htmlsi=pkerO9uyTO-9t5YH.
But here is the deleted scene from the video you just watched:
“Well, you might be interested to hear the story of Nicholas Stephen Alkemade, a British RAF gunner whose Lancaster Bomber was attacked by German planes following a raid on Berlin, leaving it in flames and hurtling groundwards. With his parachute already on fire and unusable, Alkemade reasoned that he had two options; burn to death aboard his doomed aircraft, or jump out and kick the bucket far more quickly and painlessly when he hit the ground. He chose the latter.
Alkemade exited his turret through a broken window, beginning a 5,490 metre (or roughly 18,000 feet) descent to the ground, quickly reaching terminal velocity. Three hours later… he woke up. After slamming through several branches of a pine tree, he had landed in a pile of thick snow, allowing him to somehow escape with only some minor bruising, a twisted knee, and the cuts and burns he sustained while aboard his ill-fated bomber. The tree-branches and deep snow alone had slowed his declaration upon impact from almost instant down to just very quick, and the difference saved his life.
After being found by German civilians, he was taken to a nearby hospital and interrogated by the Gestapo, who initially didn’t believe his tall-tale of falling thousands of metres without a parachute and surviving relatively unscathed. It wasn’t until they investigated the wreckage of his plane and discovered his charred parachute that his claims were corroborated. Alkemade was eventually liberated, and survived the war.”
The beginning scene form "The Other guys" gets me everytime.
One of my cats fell from a thirty story building when she was 3 months old. She broke her leg and suffered major facial injuries. She had to have surgery to remove the top part of her femur. She lost her sense of smell, she has to have daily eye drops in one eye due to pressure and she can't eat on her own and has to be hand fed. However she walks and jumps fine and her face looks perfectly normal, so you can't tell any of that just by looking at her.
Cats are much better at surviving falls than humans. Afaik it's not rare for them to survive falls at their terminal velocity.
I had a friend who fell 5-stories and was badly injured but lived. His legs were loaded with pins, and one leg shorter than the other, but was otherwise healthy.
I've always wondered if you'd feel anything or would it be instant death.
Depends sometimes you would be unconscious sometimes not
I feel like it'd be a sharp jolt and then everything goes black
Aha we're actually making a Short on this idea to be released next weekend.
At high velocity the concussion will be so strong and instant, that you'll lose consciousness momentarily. Aka there's no pain if there's nothing to feel pain.
Of course try to land on your head or at least flat, not on feet.
If you know you finna die yea, but try yo feet if you wanna live and are willing to feel such pain for that want
00:00 🧗♂ Intro to Surviving Falls
00:47 🔥 Why Falling Can Be Dangerous
01:03 🌍 Falls: A Leading Cause of Death
01:46 🔬 Understanding Fall Physics
02:20 ✈ The Concept of Terminal Velocity
03:59 📊 Survival Chances vs. Fall Height
05:33 📉 LD50 & Varied Survival Rates
07:45 🧍♂ Impact of Body Position on Survival
08:42 🚑 Exceptional Survival Stories
10:49 🚗 Real-life Story: Survivor Impact Analysis
12:50 📉 Statistics: Height vs. Survival Rate
14:28 🤕 Survival Tactics for High Falls
15:09 💡 Continuing Education on Brilliant
Key Moments by Agent Gold AI
I recently suffered a bone bruise just by stepping on a stone. I can just imagine the damage sustained from the height of a 3-story window or higher.
You should have mentioned the fall of Vesna Vulovic, a yugoslav stewardess, who allegedly survived a fall of more than 10.000m or 33.000 ft in 1972. She landed on a snowy slope in the right angle and survived. Heavily injured but she even was ready to go back to her job after recovery.
Vesna Vulovic fell in her seat with part of the fuselage and that also collided with tress so slowed her final decent further, so a very different type of fall to the more common ones we cover in this video. But we cover Vensna and other fall from planes in this video ruclips.net/video/cCUIOcox9Ag/видео.htmlsi=KZhY1mbfz4ax8Olc Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
You missed the first one. Should be just above "be lucky"
Be careful. Avoid the fall in the first place and you need not depend on luck.
Writing a book and I have one character in a corner where he needs to flee but only has a 5 story drop to go to. I guess I better write in something to fall on, instead of just destroying his legs, thanks for this!
And now i got that smushy slamming sound in my ears...
I like it!
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9:45 Another very important thing to consider here is the physical shape. Climbers often have a very low body mass So her (likely) not weighing as much as the average person reduced the force of the impact a lot.
15:04 Also this leads to survival tip #6: Don't be heavy.
Thank you a methods video not censored by RUclips.
The scene from the other guys.
What's probably the most? I've ever left watching a movie. It was so d***, unexpected, f****** hilarious the first time.
You see it
Simple way to survive any fall: carry a parachute at all times!
The absolute minimum height for a parachute to work seems to 100ft / 30m 🤔
@@DebunkedOfficialI'm surprised it's that low. Then again, that's the absolute minimum, you probably need to double or triple that to account for the reaction time to deploy it and still have time left to stop.
I was injured in a high speed forceful collision between two fighting horses. The doctors said my injuries were very similar to what they see when someone falls from the third story onto concrete.
Was about a year before I could really walk again and I still wear a built-up shoe 52 years later… injury hurt for about 15 years afterwards…
So trust me, 3rd story fall already quite bad enough.
I once heard that if you roll the millisecond you touch the ground after falling, it negates fall damage. They may have patched that though
Vesna Vulovic survived a 33,330 feet / 10.16 km fall in 1972 without parachute and lived until year 2016.
She still have the world record in 2024.
Great video..........could you also do one on falling into water
Thanks! A bucket of water or water in general?
As a guy who likes being a Ninja when I was a kid, it seems like I want to do this 14:32 If I ever fall down with lots of walls with quick reaction speed and eventually tumbling or rolling down on the ground safely
I still have lot of questions because you didn't mention that the possibilities of survival at falling on to the water bodies and it would be very helpful as well.
I have an uncle who fell from the 4th floor (Ground+4) but he miraculously survived since he landed on a PVC pipe. He walks using a support ever since.
vertical deceleration injury got me good ngl 😂😂
I've heard from news report about someone surviving a fall from 15th floor and some person died falling just on the ground from zero height. It boils down to how you fall, anything to break impact of fall, not height!
Watching this with mick foley‘s and shane mcmahon‘s bumps off of the hell in the cell in mind makes that even more scary
Reminds me of one day in school.
It was Sunday, but our new principal thinks she smart and made the school days for 6 days instead of 5. Of course, that Sunday nobody came. Only me, 2 other people, 1 guy from another class which was fully empty, and my friend Kevin from 10th grade. We sat here for 4 lessons and then we decided to escape because it was a longer recess. Of course, the class is in 2nd floor, and the fall didn't look survivable. Neither on any other one. All 1st floor classes were locked.
Kevin came and followed us and our only choice was to walk calmly through the front door as if we ar enormally leaving. Worked amazingly and we all said bye and went our ways.
About 1980 I read about a Russian soldier who fell out of a helicopter at about 1000 foot altitude. He used his coat as a “squirrel suit” and landed in 5-6 feet of powder snow. He was on his feet by the time the helicopter landed.
Thanks, debunked 👍
Im gonna use this in the future
I don’t remember u saying “don’t try this at home”
Wish you talked about landing on (diving into) water after a significant fall, in various positions.