If you’re trapped high up in a deadly predicament with only a great fall as a means of escape, should you take your chances with fall damage? 👉 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/debunked/. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. In certain, extreme situations it might be preferable to take your chances with fall damage rather than face an even greater and more immediate danger - fire, bullets, explosions! Join us as we investigate what sort of heights a person could fall from and and have a reasonable chance of survival? #debunked #survivalmyths #howtosurvive What is the maximum height you can jump? What is the maximum height you can fall and still survive? How high can you jump from without breaking a bone? How high can a human safely fall? Can you survive a 20 foot fall? What is the maximum height an adult human could fall from and safely land oh their feet? At what height do falls become deadly? How Far of a Fall Is Fatal? What height is considered a severe fall? At what height can you be injured in a fall? At what height do most falls occur? Why can't humans survive high falls? At what height do falls become fatal? At what height is a fall lethal? What fall height is survivable? What height are most fatal falls from? CHAPTERS: Common Falls What height are most fatal falls from? Terminal Velocity Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion Landing On Your Feet Landing On Objects / Cars How To Survive A Fall From Height CREDITS: Stu K - Researcher / Writer | Illustrator | Producer | Presenter Jacob T - Researcher | Writer Ross W - Illustrator | Editor | Animator Robin M - Guest VO MUSIC CREDITS Epidemic Sounds SOURCES World Health Organisation - Falls https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/falls OSHA - Focus Four https://www.osha.gov/training/outreach/construction/focus-four ‘Fatal Four’ https://www.tdi.texas.gov/tips/safety/oshafatal4.html “Terminal Velocity of a Human, Free Fall and Drag Force” https://owlcation.com/stem/Drag-Force-and-the-Terminal-Velocity-of-a-Human “Speed Skydiving” https://www.fai.org/page/isc-speed-skydiving Falls from height - The Health and Safety Executive https://www.hse.gov.uk/food/falls.htm What is Free Fall? A Quick Lesson in Physics - Head Rush Technologies https://headrushtech.com/blog/what-free-fall-quick-lesson-physics “Patterns and management of musculoskeletal injuries in attempted suicide by jumping from a height” - Vincenzo Giordano, Fabrício Santos E Santos, Celso Prata, Ney Pecegueiro do Amaral, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32936309/ “Factors affecting mortality caused by falls from height” https://jag.journalagent.com/travma/pdfs/UTD_19_6_529_535.pdf “Rise in Deaths Due to Fall from Height: A 3-Year Retrospective Study” - Naveen Kumar T, Jagannatha S.R, V.T.Venkatesha - Associate Professors, Professor & HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India https://ijop.net/index.php/mlu/article/view/753/707 “Effect of Height of Fall on Mortality in Patients with Fall Accidents: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312001/ “Vertical deceleration trauma. Principles of management” - R F Buckman Jr, P D Buckman https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2003254/ “Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212924/ “Falls from height: injury and mortality” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22860503/ “Falls from height: A retrospective analysis” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717375/ “Risk of dying after a free fall from height” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0379073895018859 “How do some people survive falls from great heights?” https://www.livescience.com/health/how-do-some-people-survive-falls-from-great-heights “How Far Can You Fall and Still Survive?” https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63088/how-far-can-you-fall-and-still-survive “How High is Deadly?” https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53767 “How Far of a Fall Is Fatal?” https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/work-accidents/how-far-of-a-fall-is-fatal-/