   jumping off a building
  How high would one have to jump from to kill himself upon landing, assuming he is landing head-first onto something hard like concrete or asphault?Would it make any difference between common hard surfaces like stone / marble, concrete, and asphault?   ___________________________________________________________Where to find the intensity (Updated May 1, 2004) 
  Thinking about killing yourself, eh?   "C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!";  What would be the altitude you would half to fall to ensure instant death? how fast?;  It doesn't take much if you hit head first. But if it's not head first, you can fall from high heights. I saw video clop of a guy falling onto a rock from either fourty or eighty feet, I don't remember which. He was hurt badly, but he survived. I've also heard of people surviving sky dives when the parachute didn't work.   [edited by - mtw on May 8, 2004 1:22:09 AM];  Tuck and roll ;  Here''s the highest survived fall according to some skydiving site:Who: Vesna Vulovic When: January 26th, 1972 Where: Somewhere over the Czech Republic What: 33,330 ft. Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m. (33,330 ft.) when the DC-9 in which she was traveling blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. No other passengers survived. It is believed the plane crashed after the detonation of a bomb planted by Croatian terrorists in the forward cargo hold. Vesna Vulovic fell 10,160 m. (33,330 ft.) - breaking both legs and becoming paralyzed from the waist down.  ;quote:Original post by mtw  Here''s the highest survived fall according to some skydiving site:Who: Vesna Vulovic When: January 26th, 1972 Where: Somewhere over the Czech Republic What: 33,330 ft. Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m. (33,330 ft.) when the DC-9 in which she was traveling blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. No other passengers survived. It is believed the plane crashed after the detonation of a bomb planted by Croatian terrorists in the forward cargo hold. Vesna Vulovic fell 10,160 m. (33,330 ft.) - breaking both legs and becoming paralyzed from the waist down.    She survived an explosion AND a 33,330 foot fall, god damn.  ;  If head first, 10 feet or so.-=Lohrno ;Original post by mtw   Here''s the highest survived fall according to some skydiving site:Who: Vesna Vulovic When: January 26th, 1972 Where: Somewhere over the Czech Republic What: 33,330 ft. Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m. (33,330 ft.) when the DC-9 in which she was traveling blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. No other passengers survived. It is believed the plane crashed after the detonation of a bomb planted by Croatian terrorists in the forward cargo hold. Vesna Vulovic fell 10,160 m. (33,330 ft.) - breaking both legs and becoming paralyzed from the waist down.    What could she land in that would be soft enough to absorb the impact yet not drown her? ;  tits? 