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We see a bit of the foundations, so the current surface level is probably somewhat below the future one, but there seems to be no soil or excavations visible anywhere around the building-to-be, all a solid, level surface (as Gharr's back will unhappily confirm). Is this entire city built onto an artificial surface, a giant slab of whatever the Raharrs use instead of ferroconcrete?
Maybe to get the traffic "underground" (we haven't seen a single vehicle yet, though a) this admittedly is merely a dream visit and b) page 167's panorama shot seems to show a jetty and a "more street-like" street at water level)?
Well, I stand corrected about him not plummeting to death ... because from the height shown on last page's final panel, and with surface gravity like Earth's (Harr's isn't listed on the Wiki), a human would be dead. Adult!Gharr, on the other hand, doesn't even have a kinked tail ... let's see what the medical aftermath's going to be ...
With even a slightly better landing (something that protected the head a bit), survival rate at that height on Earth is still fairly good. 3-5 floors up, or so? Broken limbs, certainly, and variable (and hard-to-predict) damage to the organs, but death is not remotely guaranteed.
But landing like that? Yeah, extremely few survivors.
A human on earth falling from 30 feet or higher (~10m) has enough time to reach terminal velocity and such a fall is fatal in about 50% of cases, while falling from 84 feet or higher is fatal in 90% of cases.
About half of all fatal falls occur from heights of 20 feet or less, however (according to data from India looking at fatal falls among construction workers).
What? No, 10 meters is not nearly enough to reach terminal velocity. Terminal velocity is ~55 meters per second, so about five and a half seconds of freefall not counting drag. From 10m up, the fall would be only about one and a half seconds. Enough to hurt and maybe kill, sure, but not terminal velocity.
I think Gharr fell from the first actual floor in the building, though it does appear to be at least a double-height storey.
No, 10 meters is not nearly enough to reach terminal velocity.
Agreed. Terminal velocity of the human body is between 100 and 200 km/h, depending on "posture", and impacts with speeds from 100 km/h up are hardly survivable in a modern car with all its airbags, belts and whistles. From bare human bodies at terminal velocity, there'd be positively no survivors (and a lot of caskets bolted firmly shut before the vigil).
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Looking at the building for a change ...
We see a bit of the foundations, so the current surface level is probably somewhat below the future one, but there seems to be no soil or excavations visible anywhere around the building-to-be, all a solid, level surface (as Gharr's back will unhappily confirm). Is this entire city built onto an artificial surface, a giant slab of whatever the Raharrs use instead of ferroconcrete?
Maybe to get the traffic "underground" (we haven't seen a single vehicle yet, though a) this admittedly is merely a dream visit and b) page 167's panorama shot seems to show a jetty and a "more street-like" street at water level)?
Lego piece added insult to injury, but also more injury.
When the lego steps on you
Yikes! that looks painful.
That loose plank is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Get crackin', Gharr!
Well, I stand corrected about him not plummeting to death ... because from the height shown on last page's final panel, and with surface gravity like Earth's (Harr's isn't listed on the Wiki), a human would be dead. Adult!Gharr, on the other hand, doesn't even have a kinked tail ... let's see what the medical aftermath's going to be ...
With even a slightly better landing (something that protected the head a bit), survival rate at that height on Earth is still fairly good. 3-5 floors up, or so? Broken limbs, certainly, and variable (and hard-to-predict) damage to the organs, but death is not remotely guaranteed.
But landing like that? Yeah, extremely few survivors.
A human on earth falling from 30 feet or higher (~10m) has enough time to reach terminal velocity and such a fall is fatal in about 50% of cases, while falling from 84 feet or higher is fatal in 90% of cases.
About half of all fatal falls occur from heights of 20 feet or less, however (according to data from India looking at fatal falls among construction workers).
What? No, 10 meters is not nearly enough to reach terminal velocity. Terminal velocity is ~55 meters per second, so about five and a half seconds of freefall not counting drag. From 10m up, the fall would be only about one and a half seconds. Enough to hurt and maybe kill, sure, but not terminal velocity.
I think Gharr fell from the first actual floor in the building, though it does appear to be at least a double-height storey.
Agreed. Terminal velocity of the human body is between 100 and 200 km/h, depending on "posture", and impacts with speeds from 100 km/h up are hardly survivable in a modern car with all its airbags, belts and whistles. From bare human bodies at terminal velocity, there'd be positively no survivors (and a lot of caskets bolted firmly shut before the vigil).
Oh, I felt both pains all the way over here....
Oops!