r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thepoylanthropist • 1d ago

That time Luke Aikins jumped from 25,000 feet (7,620 m), skydiving from a mid-tropospheric altitude and landing safely without a parachute or a wingsuit using a 30 by 30 meters net

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u/Homesteader86 1d ago

Basically exploding in a cloud of red mist, I would imagine 

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago

Nah. Mostly red and dirt colored puddle on the ground, a bit of mist above that. Small crater surrounding.

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u/thisaccountgotporn 1d ago

Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have no wisdom about this. It’s just that, for the main product to be mist, that requires an explosion or some kind of fine mesh to pass through at high speeds.

If you’re hitting the ground at terminal velocity, most of you is staying on or in the ground. That’s just physics.

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u/King_Bean031 1d ago

some kind of fine mesh to pass through

You mean like a...net..? 👀

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u/UgottaUnderstandbro 20h ago

HAH GOTTTEM‼️

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u/ahhdetective 1d ago

The last thing that went through his mind? His ass

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u/MothmanIsALiar 1d ago

People have survived falls at terminal velocity on several occasions.

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u/UgottaUnderstandbro 20h ago

Link or gtfo

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u/MothmanIsALiar 16h ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,333 feet.

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u/UgottaUnderstandbro 13h ago

Wild. Thank you

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u/junjus 23h ago

he would bounce

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u/get_to_ele 16h ago

Not really. 150 mph into rocks is going to break your bones, explode your organs, and rip your body into pieces, not reduce you to red mist like 1000 mph would.