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What are the chances that this would ever even be possible?
So I’m playing the Assassin’s Creed video game series, and one of the elements in the game is to climb up really high places, in order to get a better look at your surroundings so you can see what needs to get done in an area, infiltrate places or escape from city guards. you also murder people constantly, but that’s besides the point
Now here’s a random video of exactly just that; the character climbing up a cathedral, and then jumping off into some hay.
For what I need you to see, you can skip to 1:30 of the video. He jumps off the tower into a haystack, which is situated inside a wooden carriage.
I apologize for the add before the vid, can’t do anything about this
Now say someone was brave enough to do this, and had enough skill, or luck, to somehow throw themselves off the tower as to land exactly into the hay…would they survive? I mean, that’s not a lot of hay there. Maybe you can’t see it too well, but there’s maybe two feet worth of hay in the cart? From that high a jump, could you even survive? Or, does it not matter how much cushioning there would be? There must be limits to how high you can fall from something, no matter what catches you as you land? My guess is that you’d smash right through the hay and splatter yourself at the bottom of the cart, possibly even breaking it, and if not, you’d still die, or at least severely injure yourself.
Is there any kind of matter that if you landed on from falling that high, that you would survive, and others not? Like if you land in water from too high, well, that can kill you. What about hay? A huge pool filled with pillows? A big inflatable mattress?
I don’t know anything about hay, or how complicated gravity can be, and I’m kind of curious. Plus, it’s kind of a question for fun, and also an excuse to try and show the video to everyone, and to thank my sweet Fluther friend for sending me three of these games for my birthday.
Would you ever do this, if you could survive? Would it even be possible to steer yourself towards the hay, or somehow make the jump in a way that, after whatever calculations and methods were properly undertaken, you’d fall right on target?
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