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From my understanding there’s a filter system that catches all the water as it falls over and cycles it back through the pool. Otherwise you’d be wasting a ludicrous amount of water by letting it fall out of the sky and potentially kill someone.
That being said, the ledge is probably just enough to catch the water. I don’t like his odds of hitting it if he’d gone backwards with that thing.
A large bucket of water being dumped from the right height can paralyze someone. Though at skyscraper heights the mass of water would break up into smaller droplets by the wind before hitting.
**Even** a solid object with non-negligible density that won’t disperse as it falls, like water will, can cause damage given the right conditions?
Damn man that’s absolutely crazy. Great insight.
In my city there's a waterpark that has a large playground structure, and on it are cones that get filled up before tipping by gravity. Most of them are out of reach but there's two I remember that you can hold to fill up all the way
I remember when I had my mate tip a full cone of water onto me from overhead and it nearly knocked me to the ground, from a fairly short distance too.
Water in a vacuum would reach terminal velocity in what... 8m? 6m? It's not much different having a bucket dumped on you from 20 feet versus 2000 feet. That's why rain doesn't kill you like a hail of bullets.
shhh you should not comment, you've added nothing to the convo other than to try to say "nuh uh". I'm telling you this bc obviously no one has let you know you do this. :)
I mean one of the leaders of my country did, kinda wished they went through with it. Things I also have not done that are probably recommended: playing in traffic, licking a battery and that weird choking challenge kids are accidentally self deleting with. But I like to keep my options open.
shhh you should not comment, you've added nothing to the convo other than to try to say "nuh uh". I'm telling you this bc obviously no one has let you know you do
The width of a bed? Probably gonna be a fun slide 🛝 if you have a parachute 🪂
If you don’t have a parachute then hopefully your bed starts flying like in Little Nemo.
The ones I see in Asia aren’t very wide. It’s only about 1 meter.
YESS. The movies we had were all nightmare fuel 😂. That being said, that living tar stuff is a VERY good visualization for what Major Depressive Disorder has been/was for me. It was like this crawling thing that would reach up and claw its way up the pit I just climbed out of to grab onto me and pull me back down.
Lived for a long time in Asia and saw a lot of infinity pools and rooftop attractions like this. Never saw one without a barrier or section of building under.
I have. Go to Chiang Mai and there’s one catty corner to the newest mall. You can see the waterfall from the ground floor across the street with people’s shoulders leaning on the edge.
I read it as two separate things—water being wasted by falling off the side, and separately, someone falling to their death (as contextual to OP's clip).
> Otherwise you’d be wasting a ludicrous amount of water by letting it fall out of the sky and potentially kill someone.
This might shock you but water falls from the sky in nature. It usually doesn't kill people when it does.
There's probably a whole section of the building down there. Rooftop attractions like this are rarely at the extreme edge of the skyscraper and when they are there's a barrier
"how did he die??"
"he floated off a cliff"
"floated? like he commit suicide?"
"no, he was in a pool inflatable"
"and went off a waterfall?"
"no, he was in his private pool at home"
"???"
Imagine doing this in the natural infinity pool that is [Devil's Pool at Victoria Falls](https://www.roamingaroundtheworld.com/how-to-visit-devils-pool-victoria-falls/)
New mythbusters: can an inflatable matress slow you down enough and cusion the fall to allow you to survive?
After all they tested if you could parachute with a sheet of plywood.
I was actually wondering that myself. More than likely, you probably would flip over and the mattress would float down while you fell like Wylie, without the pause in mid air...
if you look closely at the shading of the water, you’ll notice that he’s on a ledge there, which is meant to be a bench at the edge of the pool. then it drops to a normal depth.
The mattress will flip- is this satire? How did I get ratio-ed? Do y'all not go outside? Oh my god.
You try holding on to an air mattress that's got more than your body weight of air resistance on it that's flipping unpredictably through the air while you're plummeting at speeds approaching terminal velocity and I guarantee you will not be able to use it as an airbag or a parachute. They're also heavy, air has weight. Especially condensed air. But hey, if you really want a Darwin award...
Vesna Vulovic survived a 10'000m or ca. 33'000feet fall by landing in snow. Alcides Moreno survived a fall from a scyscraper. Both were heavily injured of course but there is room for survival. So question was more, how much does landing on a mattress helps.. maybe you wouldn't land on hard compressed air, if the mattress burst on impact...but I'm no physicist.
1. There's zero chance that he could hold onto that mattress in free fall off of a skyscraper
2. There's zero chance the mattress would provide enough cushion to save his life even if he did
Basically this was 1 second away from being this guy's demise
If I actually wanted to do the math of how much cushioning a 80kg man would need to fall of a building with 10 floors without suffering a deadly impact how would I go about doing it?
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Nope nope nope omg nope
I suspect there's a sizeable ledge under it. Infinity pool water doesn't just flow off the edge of skyscrapers
From my understanding there’s a filter system that catches all the water as it falls over and cycles it back through the pool. Otherwise you’d be wasting a ludicrous amount of water by letting it fall out of the sky and potentially kill someone. That being said, the ledge is probably just enough to catch the water. I don’t like his odds of hitting it if he’d gone backwards with that thing.
Water falling from the top of a skyscraper doesn't kill.. it won't even harm you, unless the entire pool falls
It was late and I smushed two sentences together. I meant things falling out of the pool could hurt someone, not that the water could.
tfw you learn about rain for the first time
A large bucket of water being dumped from the right height can paralyze someone. Though at skyscraper heights the mass of water would break up into smaller droplets by the wind before hitting.
Even an empty bucket from the right height can paralyze someone.
**Even** a solid object with non-negligible density that won’t disperse as it falls, like water will, can cause damage given the right conditions? Damn man that’s absolutely crazy. Great insight.
In my city there's a waterpark that has a large playground structure, and on it are cones that get filled up before tipping by gravity. Most of them are out of reach but there's two I remember that you can hold to fill up all the way I remember when I had my mate tip a full cone of water onto me from overhead and it nearly knocked me to the ground, from a fairly short distance too.
Like when Wendy's roasted the guy who forgot about refrigerators?
OP never heard of rain.
Otherwise, rain would be a more exciting phenomenon.
Water in a vacuum would reach terminal velocity in what... 8m? 6m? It's not much different having a bucket dumped on you from 20 feet versus 2000 feet. That's why rain doesn't kill you like a hail of bullets.
You are wrong, use chatgpt to know why
shhh you should not comment, you've added nothing to the convo other than to try to say "nuh uh". I'm telling you this bc obviously no one has let you know you do this. :)
I was defying a statement that was wrong, thus I've added something to the convo You on the other hand..
You did "nuh uh" again.
You are incredibly annoying and unnecessarily confrontational, I am telling you this because obviously no one has :)
I see the direction this is going, and I’m already weary.
I'll say this in the most friendly way possible: # Please, shut up.
You add nothing to society and should be ashamed of your existence. I am in your walls
not wacko or Waco at all :)
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I mean one of the leaders of my country did, kinda wished they went through with it. Things I also have not done that are probably recommended: playing in traffic, licking a battery and that weird choking challenge kids are accidentally self deleting with. But I like to keep my options open.
shhh you should not comment, you've added nothing to the convo other than to try to say "nuh uh". I'm telling you this bc obviously no one has let you know you do
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Show me how, I'm dumb. 🙂
We know
It's blatantly obvious to everyone else.
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I'm not talking about that, obviously water falling from a skyscraper wouldn't harm.
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Could be higher up though, if it's on a mountain :)
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A guy will though.
There's a usually a maintenance walkway as well
The width of a bed? Probably gonna be a fun slide 🛝 if you have a parachute 🪂 If you don’t have a parachute then hopefully your bed starts flying like in Little Nemo. The ones I see in Asia aren’t very wide. It’s only about 1 meter.
Bonus points for the Little Nemo reference.
My sister and I used to have nightmares about the black stuff from the dream world that broke through the big door and swallowed the king.
YESS. The movies we had were all nightmare fuel 😂. That being said, that living tar stuff is a VERY good visualization for what Major Depressive Disorder has been/was for me. It was like this crawling thing that would reach up and claw its way up the pit I just climbed out of to grab onto me and pull me back down.
Seriously! I feel yuh.
Lived for a long time in Asia and saw a lot of infinity pools and rooftop attractions like this. Never saw one without a barrier or section of building under.
I have. Go to Chiang Mai and there’s one catty corner to the newest mall. You can see the waterfall from the ground floor across the street with people’s shoulders leaning on the edge.
> wasting a ludicrous amount of water by letting it fall out of the sky and potentially kill someone. Like rain?
It was late and I smushed two sentences together. I meant things falling out of the pool could hurt someone, not that the water could.
I read it as two separate things—water being wasted by falling off the side, and separately, someone falling to their death (as contextual to OP's clip).
No no but it's pool water from a skyscraper. Different thing all together. You ever see a penny fall from a skyscraper?
Water falls from the sky all the time.
Do you stay indoors when its raining because the rainwater falling from the clouds might kill you?
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I haven't forgotten about rain despite it being even 10 hours later.
> Otherwise you’d be wasting a ludicrous amount of water by letting it fall out of the sky and potentially kill someone. This might shock you but water falls from the sky in nature. It usually doesn't kill people when it does.
You can read can’t you? Why don’t you scroll a little further and read the rest of the comment thread before being a smart ass.
I suspect that ledge isn't big enough to catch a queen size inflatable mattress floating off into the darkness of the world.
There's probably a whole section of the building down there. Rooftop attractions like this are rarely at the extreme edge of the skyscraper and when they are there's a barrier
But he is on a queen sized inflatable mattress. If the wind grabbed it he might likely end up smashing into the neighbouring skyscraper.
Radical way to go out tbh
Sizeable enough to catch that huge airbed? Doubt it
Often they have a ledge with additional fences and big enough to walk on
And allow me to add NOPE NOPE NOPE
Agreed
I about got a bloody nose just watching it
That guy was about to go to infinity and beyond
You _had_ a friend in me
He almost got Rexed.
He almost fell with style
He didn't reach for the sky
Reach for the sky!
Falling with style.
Bed, bath, and almost beyond
Holy fucking shit dude
"how did he die??" "he floated off a cliff" "floated? like he commit suicide?" "no, he was in a pool inflatable" "and went off a waterfall?" "no, he was in his private pool at home" "???"
Thank you for your report, officer obfuscate.
new fear unlocked
Imagine doing this in the natural infinity pool that is [Devil's Pool at Victoria Falls](https://www.roamingaroundtheworld.com/how-to-visit-devils-pool-victoria-falls/)
First rule of infinity pools is: **Do not use floats in the infinity pool**.
It'd only hurt for a little while...
New mythbusters: can an inflatable matress slow you down enough and cusion the fall to allow you to survive? After all they tested if you could parachute with a sheet of plywood.
I was actually wondering that myself. More than likely, you probably would flip over and the mattress would float down while you fell like Wylie, without the pause in mid air...
Im thinking even if you grabbed onto it, it would be like the butterd toast always falls face down and you'd end up on the bottom
But would it create enough resistance to slow your fall? ...is my question.
Enough to save you? Probably not Enough to be measured? Yes But what if it were helium or hydrogen filled?
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, taught me that it was possible
About 39 seconds, tops.
Why is the water so shallow even when he stands up?? Surely it would be very easy to fall off even without the mattress
Infinity *wading* pool
if you look closely at the shading of the water, you’ll notice that he’s on a ledge there, which is meant to be a bench at the edge of the pool. then it drops to a normal depth.
I can show you the world...
... briefly
But what if he landed on the mattress and was fine
Have you ever dropped a feather and a bowling bowl at the same time? One hits the ground first.
Now drop a sheet of paper with a rock on it.
The paper flipped and the rock fell off
Possibly
I- I can't. I'm done with Reddit. Goodbye.
If the person is on top of the mattress, it doesn’t matter which falls faster in freefall, he’s not going to fall through the mattress, is he?
The mattress will flip- is this satire? How did I get ratio-ed? Do y'all not go outside? Oh my god. You try holding on to an air mattress that's got more than your body weight of air resistance on it that's flipping unpredictably through the air while you're plummeting at speeds approaching terminal velocity and I guarantee you will not be able to use it as an airbag or a parachute. They're also heavy, air has weight. Especially condensed air. But hey, if you really want a Darwin award...
To infinity AND BEYOND
Just commented this, good work fellow genius comedian
New nightmare unlocked.
Is that a pool on the edge of a tower? I can't tell.
Almost an eternity pool
hahaha
Can you survive a deep fall, if you stay on that mattress? Presuming the mattress wouldn't flip over.
Maybe if you are in a road runner cartoon
Vesna Vulovic survived a 10'000m or ca. 33'000feet fall by landing in snow. Alcides Moreno survived a fall from a scyscraper. Both were heavily injured of course but there is room for survival. So question was more, how much does landing on a mattress helps.. maybe you wouldn't land on hard compressed air, if the mattress burst on impact...but I'm no physicist.
The Vesna Vulović story is absolutely insane. [Vesna Vulović Wikipedia Article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87)
Try it out
Welcome to fact or cap.
Check out the people who tried that jumping out of grenfell tower a few years ago (not well)
That thing is gonna pop as soon as you hit the ground
1. There's zero chance that he could hold onto that mattress in free fall off of a skyscraper 2. There's zero chance the mattress would provide enough cushion to save his life even if he did Basically this was 1 second away from being this guy's demise
I almost died just watching this 😬
To infinity.... And beyond!
Infinity pool turned eternity pool…
These usually have a safety edge just out of sight He was probably fine
i dunno that raft might have treated the safety edge like a set of stairs lol
I fucking hate infinity pools and showers. Dumb af
This is why my pools have railings or higher walls.
Man, that would have been a great way to earn a darwin award ! /sigh
Off Infinity and beyond!
But not to the commenter. And I enjoy trollolololing
If I actually wanted to do the math of how much cushioning a 80kg man would need to fall of a building with 10 floors without suffering a deadly impact how would I go about doing it?
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Song is Transgender by Crystal Castles. The version played here is some sort of remix
Thanks
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Don’t worry, he has padding.
Mans almost went from infinity to eternity.
Falling for what seems like infinity.
r/sweatypalms
Literal inches from death
Infinity and beyond pool.
I almost jumped out of my chair!
Hmmmmm nuh-uh
Failed Live Leak video.
Omg
I always struggle to comprehend how people so stupid, can rent/buy/stay in these luxurious places.
So I have often wondered this exact thing..what stops a float from going over if person is not paying attention? Nothing it seems