Help will it kill me if i jump from the 17th floor (abt 51 metres, 55yards)

[Willowmoon]

title, thank you in advance.
i weigh abt 50 kilograms
just curious, is there anyone good at physics? :)

 

[Suicidebydeath]

It's likely but there are no guarantees. If you are going to jump then about 50m is as good as any.

 

[NeverReallyHere]

There's a thing called terminal velocity, which is the point at which air resistance cancels out the effect of gravity - put simply, it's the maximum speed an object can reach while it's falling to earth. A quick google puts the terminal velocity of a skydiver with limbs spread out at 50 m/s and it takes around 15 seconds to reach that speed. According to this online acceleration calculator the distance needed to achieve that would be around 374 meters. You can probably calculate how fast you'd be going after 50 meters, but given there are numerous stories of people surviving even falls from planes, I wouldn't recommend a 50 meter jump as a method.

 

[Willowmoon]

There's a thing called terminal velocity, which is the point at which air resistance cancels out the effect of gravity - put simply, it's the maximum speed an object can reach while it's falling to earth. A quick google puts the terminal velocity of a skydiver with limbs spread out at 50 m/s and it takes around 15 seconds to reach that speed. According to this online acceleration calculator the distance needed to achieve that would be around 374 meters. You can probably calculate how fast you'd be going after 50 meters, but given there are numerous stories of people surviving even falls from planes, I wouldn't recommend a 50 meter jump as a method.

thats exactly what i need!! thank you so much

 

[Shadowlord900]

As NeverReallyHere above posted, people have even survived falls from planes so I think any fall outside of the absolute highest possible (just before leaving Earth's gravity, and even then you'd sooner die from lack of oxygen if you got that high up) is not guaranteed. I think the minimum height to give you the best chances of not surviving would be a 100+ meter drop, ideally onto a solid hard surface. (While difficult to control, landing on your back or head would be ideal way of landing to not survive.)

Reason I say 100+ meters is because I know in the UK a popular way of CTBing is jumping off of coastal cliffs exceeding 100+ meters. Beachy Head is the most infamous but I wouldn't recommend that one due to the Chaplaincy Team who try to prevent people jumping off.

 

[Willowmoon]

As NeverReallyHere above posted, people have even survived falls from planes so I think any fall outside of the absolute highest possible (just before leaving Earth's gravity, and even then you'd sooner die from lack of oxygen if you got that high up) is not guaranteed. I think the minimum height to give you the best chances of not surviving would be a 100+ meter drop, ideally onto a solid hard surface. (While difficult to control, landing on your back or head would be ideal way of landing to not survive.)

Reason I say 100+ meters is because I know in the UK a popular way of CTBing is jumping off of coastal cliffs exceeding 100+ meters. Beachy Head is the most infamous but I wouldn't recommend that one due to the Chaplaincy Team who try to prevent people jumping off.

well...
i live in Asia, very very far from Europe.
good news: i live on the 17th floor so i may leap from my balcony
thank you for texting :)

 

[Shadowlord900]

well...
i live in Asia, very very far from Europe.
good news: i live on the 17th floor so i may leap from my balcony
thank you for texting :)

I've heard of people dying from 11 story heights (which can range between 26-46 meters) so it's definitely possible, but me personally I wouldn't risk only going with 50+ meters. Heck I even had the chance of jumping off a 100+ meter coastal cliff but I chickened out.

Whatever methods you can find and choose I wish you all the best.

 

[Willowmoon]

I've heard of people dying from 11 story heights (which can range between 26-46 meters) so it's definitely possible, but me personally I wouldn't risk only going with 50+ meters. Heck I even had the chance of jumping off a 100+ meter coastal cliff but I chickened out.

Whatever methods you can find and choose I wish you all the best.

hehe thank you
love from the other side of the earth

 

[outrider567]

17 stories? If you land on concrete, you'd be most likely dead for sure

 

[Willowmoon]

17 stories? If you land on concrete, you'd be most likely dead for sure

Pardon me, may I ask what story means in this context? I don't speak English and I'm confused about it.
I only know what floor mean in this usage
Thank you in advance

 

[Suicidebydeath]

Pardon me, may I ask what story means in this context? I don't speak English and I'm confused about it.
I only know what floor mean in this usage
Thank you in advance

Storey & floor means the same thing when talking about buildings.

It's a usage that has persisted a long time in language, probably because 15-storey building sounds better than 15-floor building or building with 15 floors.

 

[Willowmoon]

Storey & floor means the same thing when talking about buildings.

It's a usage that has persisted a long time in language, probably because 15-storey building sounds better than 15-floor building or building with 15 floors.

Thank you so much
But I'm confused again... What's the difference between story and storey?
Thank you again w

 

[Suicidebydeath]

Thank you so much
But I'm confused again... What's the difference between story and storey?
Thank you again w

American vs British English. Both are correct.

There's a lot of slightly different spellings in English. Just to confuse things even farther, a story can be a narrative or series of events. e.g. "Telling someone a story." "This is a story about Bill and Ben, the flower pot men.".

 

[Willowmoon]

American vs British English. Both are correct.

There's a lot of slightly different spellings in English. Just to confuse things even farther, a story can be a narrative or series of events. "Telling someone a story."

Aw thank you so much, I have never imagined I could learn English here
Love from the other side of the earth