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How many stories do you have to fall in order to reach your terminal velocity?
47 stories is fucking insane. I live in manhattan . . . you guys have no idea how high up this is.
if you land flat out on your stomach, what is to keep your head from turning into a watermelon at a Gallagher show when it smashes full force into the ground at whatever speed you happened to be falling at???
luck? your face would take to brunt of the force, yea youre gonna be fucked up, but it just seems like the "best" way to land.
I really don't think they way he landed was a huge factor. Sure if he landed on his head he would def be dead, but the fact of it is, from 47 stories landing any way he should have been dead. This guy is just extremely lucky. If I was him I would have put my life savings on black right after I woke up.A fall like that would completely displace your sensory organs.
aka you would have eyes on the back of your head lol
EDIT: Article said he had a shattered vertebrae . . he musta landed on his backside.
here it is. her chutes only partially opened, so she had SOME slow down
Pregnant Skydiver Survives Face-First Fall
just google "skydiver survives fall" and there are tons of people who have survived free falls. they are all lucky, but it does happen under the right circumstances
there's a difference???3) he's from ecudor, not mexico