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It’s actually pretty interesting, but to your point, apparently children can tolerate a higher fall. Here’s a reddit post where a kid falls from a window and a
by lettergram 7y ago
It’s actually pretty interesting, but to your point, apparently children can tolerate a higher fall.
Here’s a reddit post where a kid falls from a window and a lady is trying to help her back home:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/c0j87k/kid_falls_from_window/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/c0j87k/kid_falls_from_...
It’s largely due to their lower mass and flexibility. It’s all about deceleration. Depending how they (and adults) fall how their chances of survival are impacted.
- sharpneli 7y agoAir resistance goes by surface area, weight goes by volume. Terminal velocity depends on ratio of those two. And thats what matters on long falls. The rule of thumb I heard is that a hamster survives, human dies and an elephant goes splat.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoThe orignal quote is quite poetic: > "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." - J.B.S. Haldane
- Insanity 7y agoThanks! I knew it sounded familiar. replacing elephant with horse does paint a ... Better?.. picture in my mind.
- 11235813213455 7y agoa hamster on a road will most likely die, a human with a wingsuit has good chances to survive