Posted on 11/23/2022 11:04:59 AM PST by nickcarraway
“Any estimate on MPH at stopping contact?”
The good news is you stop accelerating when you reach about 120mph.
You do know that all objects fall at the same acceleration rate, don’t you?
Depends on what you’re standing on........................😉
And sadly, I doubt she caught nothing but air all the way down. Realistically, maybe mercifully she probably struck the side of the cliff several times before reaching the bottom.
More good news: your velocity stops when you reach the bottom.
“The speed achieved by a human body in free fall is conditioned of two factors, body weight and body orientation. In a stable, belly to earth position, terminal velocity of the human body is about 200 km/h (about 120 mph).”
“It takes about 12 seconds to reach 97% of terminal velocity. During that period, a human would fall about 455 metres.”
At 1000’ it would be 80-100 MPH.
Remember it isn’t the fall that kills you. It is the sudden stop at the end of the fall.
Disaster?
They actually don’t...do the calculus, with variables such as drag and surface area and wind direction, until reaching terminal velocity of 9.8 meters per second squared (m/s 2).
You accelerate again at the end.
“It not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden stop.”
That Dad joke is so old I heard it from MY Dad.
In a perfectly controlled environment.
Dying like this is not a tragic accident in the same sense of being hit by a bus in a crosswalk while out on a neighborhood walk. Part of the attraction of mountain climbing and other high risk activity is that you have the satisfaction and bragging rights to do things more cautious people are not willing to take the risk doing. Live risky, die young, leave a good-looking corpse and perhaps grieving family and friends. She died doing what she loved. May she rest in peace.
Ask the villain in Die Hard !!
Horrible...my cousin died hiking Half Dome in Yosemite. He was an experienced hiker.
Tragic.
Some people get joy taking risks in scenic, dangerous places. Sometimes it simply does not end well.
Ironic that over 700,000 young Italian and Austrian soldiers died miserable deaths often by freezing fighting in those mountains during WW I. The grand result was Italy was “awarded” ~50 square miles of mountains at the Versailles peace treaty
Just another examplr of human folly.
Let’s see.
You’d fall:
16 feet the first second.
48 feet the second second.
80 feet the third second.
112 feet the fourth second.
144 feet the fifth second.
176 feet the sixth second.
208 feet the seventh second.
240 feet the eighth second.
That’s 1024 feet by the end of eight seconds (provided you didn’t hit any trees, roots, prominent rocks, mountain goats, fellow hikers, or birds of prey on the way down).
Ban cliffs.
[[ How long does it take to fall 1000 feet? ]]
Dont know, but liberals tell us that violent conservative rhetoric causes things, so the fall was likely due to violent rhetoric /s
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