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What happens to your body when falling from a 17 story building?
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Studies have shown that the median height of a fall leading to death is about 49 feet (so about 4 to 5 stories). Therefore, a fall from a 17-story building will almost certainly lead to death. What happens is that, as the body falls, it accelerates due to gravity until it reaches terminal velocity, which is the balance between the acceleration of gravity and the air resistance stopping acceleration and leading to a plateau of that max velocity...which is about 120 miles per hour. When the body hits a hard surface (such as concrete), it gives very little...meaning that the body decelerates abruptly from 120 miles per hour to 0 miles per hour, creating massive g-forces. This abrupt deceleration creates extreme forces on all portions of the body. Almost all bones shatter (except those in the inner ear), and organs liquify and explode.
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