Ok, I’m slow on modern culture, but I thought of this from one of the Bourne movies:
Hero jumps down high stairwell with dead guy as mattress to absorb the impact. From what maximum height would that work?
While plummeting down on top of said dead guy, Hero kills other guy on stairs by firing by firing a handgun in each hand, no less. (IIRC)
You have to admit that’s pretty cool. But not cool enough, says I.
This is going into cartoon world, as opposed to the plain simple workaday reality of the above activities:
Guy with weapons in each hand wants to slow down his fall by using recoil of the weapons. I know that recoil is equal and opposite to the energy put out (I’m sure theres a correct way to say that), but I don’t know weaponry.
So, what would he use to fire downwards? Assume he is impervious and won’t blow his arms off or himself into atoms. Remember, he’s our Hero.
Thank you. Amazing cite; will work on digesting it. So I am not the first person to have thought about it. As have you, presumably, judging by the speed of your post!
Hey, recoil’s recoil. I love the way the way the human muscles work on the landing on the up-bounce. It’s like little vids played forward and backwards, but better, because of the grace when re-arriving.
Also, you’ve saved me from succumbing to bumpitis: no-one’s touched question one yet…
Exactly. I missed this was in GQ, sorry. It was about recoil though, as** Bloom **said. (there’s another bump for you; I want the answer to your first question, as well )
Using a single corpse as a mattress wouldn’t help you much. The idea of a mattress is to increase the amount of distance you travel while stopping. If you’re deliberately jumping and are good at what you do, you can make this nearly as long as your whole body, by landing feet-first and tumbling as soon as you land. Assuming that the dead body you’re using is horizontal, it’ll only add a few more inches (however much a corpse can compress) to that. You’d be a lot better off with a deep pile of dead bodies.
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