They have parachutes for a softer landing on water. They aren’t hitting it at terminal velocity from the free fall
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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWater isn’t like in the video games. It’s still a hard landing that you wouldn’t survive if you were going too fast. There’s just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My father was a fighter pilot. He explained that at a sufficiently sharp angle, hitting water was like hitting concrete.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Surface tension is a weird thing chemically/electrostatically, but we also probably don’t have life on Earth without it.
fred_garvin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Former Navy rescue swimmer here. Judging height over open ocean is really hard. Especially in rolling seas. Deploy too high and too fast and you fucking skip off the water.