Originally posted by Awhislyle
As to the skydiving comment, the max speed ever recorded of a skydiver is 143m/s without any special equipment, and 49 m/s is considered a safe speed of opening your parachute at, so if you knew your parachute wasn't going to open(or you were planning on dying). And you went into a dive towards the ground at 100m/s and have about 75 kilograms of mass

Thats about 3680000 joules of energy, and assuming that the human body is 10% elastic(which is highly unlikely) your still exerting 3312000 joules in 2/100ths of a second, definantly going to be enough to break your neck, pulverize your skull, compress your spine, and smash your brain.


Now, if you go legs first and/or are laying in the air perpendicular to the ground, there is a chance you are going to feel some pain(heck some people have even survived)
So a general rule of thumb when skydiving to your death is dive head first so as to crush your brain instantly then ?