[Sloth]

but a drop of 20 feet (@ 32 ft/sec/sec) would take less than .55 of a second.

20 feet would take 1.12 seconds.

200 feet would take 3.53 seconds.

[rlmorel]

<"...200 feet would take 3.53 seconds..."

I don't want to make light of the poor man's fate, because I don't mean this as such, but remember that everything slows to a crawl in times like that.

To me, 3.53 seconds of full enlightenment, knowing full well the end is approaching, is a lifetime.