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On the topic of cliff jumping

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mg.
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back dive vs back flop

http://www.shockmansion.com/2013/10/07/video-meanwhile-in-canada-insanely-massive-cliff-jump-goes-terribly-wrong/

Oct 7 2013 12:12AM
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Bloom.
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He died from that.
Oct 7 2013 12:18AM
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fupaface
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holy fuck
Oct 7 2013 12:25AM
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Spiri7o
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oh my god...
Oct 7 2013 12:25AM
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gotti
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nah hes ight
Oct 7 2013 12:35AM
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stupendous-man
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Oct 7 2013 12:36AM
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deleted5
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did he really?
Oct 7 2013 12:43AM
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NinetyFour
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I can't find any links. And people keep posting an old CBC article from 2009 on other places. How are people so stupid to not check a date...
Oct 7 2013 12:46AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i hope he was lucky enough to have died from that because if not, man, that boy has got to be in a lot of pain from the laundry list of injuries he's sure to have sustained. that was fucking HIGH.
Oct 7 2013 12:52AM
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___ASP___
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jesus! my family has a cottage on that lake, ive been past that cliff several times and never thought it was possible to jump it, apparently i was right
Oct 7 2013 12:58AM
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NinetyFour
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ARTICLE FOR REFERENCE, IRRELEVANT TO THE OP: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cliff-jump-kills-salmon-arm-man-1.819579 That was a 15m cliff. This had to be double that. So yeah, I'd imagine he's dead... Sometimes people need to know their limit.
Oct 7 2013 12:59AM
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RimJobber
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Fuck.


Dumb bitch jixed him
Oct 7 2013 1:04AM
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___ASP___
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the spot the video is from is not rattle snake point, its further down the lake so the article was not about the spot in the video
Oct 7 2013 1:04AM
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NinetyFour
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I realize that... That's why I said it's not related to the video in the OP, and quoted myself where I said people were linking the wrong article. Then I used it as a comparison.
Oct 7 2013 1:25AM
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MNS
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Oh cool, i live near in Kelowna. I've never been to this jump spot. This one out on kanagan lake in winfield is pretty good.

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Oct 7 2013 2:01AM
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MNS
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on second though, i'll stick with my dinky 30-40 foot jumps.
Oct 7 2013 2:03AM
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B.Aussie
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That's stupid high.
Oct 7 2013 2:19AM
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RubberSoul
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oh my god
Oct 7 2013 10:34AM
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yuck
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jesus that was actually insanely fucking huge, i had no idea how big that was gonna be till i saw his tiny little body float down to the water and apparently just explode.
Oct 7 2013 10:40AM
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Fluttershy
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i copy/pasted his body over and over on paint to get an idea of how tall it is. its around 150 feet given that hes 6 feet tall O_o
Oct 7 2013 2:00PM
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Randy_Quench
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perspective my friend.. your copy/paste job is flawed.
Oct 7 2013 2:03PM
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penguiin
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I can see it now...

"dude it's just water man it can't hurt that bad"
Oct 7 2013 2:06PM
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Fluttershy
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given that he was standing at the top and he wasnt in the foreground of the video, the ratio between his height and the height of the cliff will be relatively the same. maybe the cliff is a bit taller due angling
Oct 7 2013 2:10PM
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Black-Bandanna
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Realizes he's fucked
Water explodes around him
Never seen again
Oct 7 2013 2:39PM
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Z-Juice
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Only Wilson should hit something like that
Oct 7 2013 2:43PM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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Some very rough calculations:

3 seconds of free fall is roughly 150 feet.
3 seconds of free fall gets impact speed @ 29.4 m/s
29.4 m/s and a weight of 75kg = 32500 Joules.

I'm assuming that's enough to kill someone. This does not even take into consideration the force of impact (ie the orientation of his landed.)

Pretty sure inertia would destroy all your vital organs at this point. Don't even need math to see that.

Oct 7 2013 2:54PM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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To put that into perspective 32500 J is the about the equivalent of 8 grams of TNT exploding.
Oct 7 2013 3:02PM
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deleted5
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Is that a lot of tnt?
Oct 7 2013 3:04PM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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It would be like a 215 lb man running into you at 58 mph
Oct 7 2013 3:14PM
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BLADEE
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I hadn't even read the thread, and this is exactly what i said
Oct 7 2013 3:15PM
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yuck
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that would be the math if he just hit the ground, stopping instantaneously. even though water is incompressible, it would absorb the majority of that force simply by being displaced, and he would decelerate as opposed to just stopping. this drastically decreases the forces on his body

regardless of math, anyone can tell that guy got FUCKED though
Oct 7 2013 3:32PM
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Turkelton
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That was fucking scary.
Holy shit
Oct 7 2013 3:34PM
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Mag
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I love your analogies.
Oct 7 2013 3:44PM
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.Hugo.
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that guy is a fucking idiot
Oct 7 2013 5:20PM
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theabortionator
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Was he doing a reverse?
Oct 7 2013 5:25PM
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papermache
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jamie pierre would have done it
Oct 7 2013 7:21PM
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mg.
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I don't think he died, my parents live just down the lake from there and there wasn't anything in the news about anyone dying on the lake. And since vernon has nothing ever going on, if someone dies, its going to be in the news.

insane
Oct 7 2013 7:55PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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this thread is really taking off
Oct 7 2013 8:24PM
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Olimar
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why he was going down I was just like. "oh. my. god." That was hard to watch. I couldnt imagine being there...
Oct 7 2013 9:52PM
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Willgum
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Dude you are on your game in this thread
Oct 7 2013 9:57PM
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RimJobber
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Tell me how much force I took to my side when I was hit by a dirtbike. Roughly 400lbs going 30mph.
Oct 7 2013 11:05PM
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~bagelz~
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if f=ma then i'd say about 2000000J seems about right
Oct 7 2013 11:30PM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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Force has units of Newtons. N = kg*m*s^-2. It's not the same thing. You also can't use the units he gave you. You need to convert them all (thanks america).

I was using conservation of energy and more specifically Kinetic Energy = 1/2*m*v^2. Like someone said above it's a problematic assumption since you are going from movement to a dead halt. It doesn't take into consideration anything else, which makes it a very rough estimate at best.
Oct 9 2013 7:41PM
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