Russian Building Jump Into Snow

Jumping Off a Building Into Snow

Kids these days. They will try all sorts of crazy things. Jumping off a building was not on my list of things to do as a kid – even if there was a huge snow drift at the bottom.

Projectile motion again. Here is the vertical motion.

Even though the scale isn’t quite known and the camera moves, this looks like a constant acceleration fall. But is it possible to survive? If the jumpers start 13 meters above the ground and stop in a 1.5 meter snow drift, that would an acceleration of about 7.6 g’s. Not a good idea, but probably survivable.

The Verdict: Probably real. Here is the original post.

Russian building jump into snow

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Wall Street Starts New Year With a Jump

Analysts say equity markets are expected to remain volatile in 2011 as issues including the euro zone debt crisis are expected to resurface.

Wall Street Starts New Year With a Jump

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Hynix Shares Jump on Expectation Chip Prices to Rebound Soon

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Hynix Semiconductor Inc. advanced in Seoul trading on speculation prices for computer memory chips will soon rebound, an analyst said. The world’s second-largest maker of computer memory added 4.4 percent to 25,050 won as of 11:41 a.m. on the Korea Exchange, while larger chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. gained 1.4 percent to 962,000 won.

Hynix Shares Jump on Expectation Chip Prices to Rebound Soon

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Lunar Robots May Jump Instead Of Moonwalk

Legged robots offer a lot more flexibility than wheeled robots do when it comes to moving over uneven terrain, like the types of surfaces you might expect to find on the moon. As the Apollo astronauts discovered, however, walking on the moon is much easier said than done, and the most effective bipedal gait turned out to be a sort of robot-unfriendly bouncy trotting run.

Lunar Robots May Jump Instead Of Moonwalk

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