Anon escapes from work

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You would need to fall something like 1,800 feet (550 meters) to reach terminal velocity. You would be falling for half a minute. There are probably only like 50 or less buildings on earth which qualify.

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  • zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That highly depends on the position of a human trying to reach terminal velocity in earth’s lower atmosphere.
    Your number is about right for a human body in horizontal position with spread arms and legs.
    Diving headfirst with flattened arms and legs can lead to a terminal velocity of more than double of the above scenario. That requires a lot more fall distance.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Care to show your math on that? I found this reference for human drag coefficients when I did my math but it does not mention any spread positions.

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are these nets deaigned for accidental falls? Because I bet you I could jump farther than they extend.

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  • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tragically, I think they only aim to be “do it somewhere else” nets. Because they introduce the threat of getting caught or partially caught and having to live with the embarrassment or wounds, respectively.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I believe they are required for worker dorms in China or news communities on ML.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I would have thought Russia would have been dead against accidental fall net. It increases the likelihood that Putin would actually have to compete in an election.

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Keep buying those iPhones people! Their supply chains have nets like these too.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d call them 10’ wide, but let’s say 8’. I’m looking at the 8’ x 10’ area rug under me and I couldn’t jump either axis of the thing, even with a running jump. And no way in hell from a window.

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• jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We have these in Taiwan for different reasons. In Taipei, we have tons of foot traffic so these are designed to protect innocent bystanders.

  Also in Taiwan, we have these nets on almost every escalator. It’s not required by law to have these, but every business just have them to protect people falling down.

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  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you not get a massive pigeon problem with them sitting on the nets and shiting on the people below?

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Taipei, we have tons of foot traffic so these are designed to protect innocent bystanders.

    … From jumpers?!

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    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are some streets in Palestine that have/(had) nets but those were to block the trash being thrown down on top of them.

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• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if people just start using these as an IRL dark humor coping mechanisms? Like you know killing yourself isn’t even a luxury you’re allowed anymore, but every once in a while you just jump bc jumping has become a joke between you and your coworkers?

  www.reddit.com/r/…/gota_get_that_money/

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember a video, probably liveleak, of a guy jumping on one as a test or joke. It failed and he fell.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So not only are the nets there to prevent employees from committing suicide by self-defenestration, which is only a safety measure put into place after people have actually jumped from the window & died, but the nets are also ineffective and don’t serve the purpose they were intended? Great.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this one of the cell phone factories in China?

  Also I feel like if I had a good running start from high enough, I could clear that net.

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  • dxc@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With ‘terminal velocity’ everything’s possible

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh here we go again, gotta educate people about the limitations & fine print regarding terminal velocity: lemmy.world/comment/20184977

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are we talking about the DOS game or the Charlie Sheen movie?

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *weggies

  Bcs you know that net sliced right up your butthole.

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• arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That building is incredibly ugly.

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  • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now you can understand why they want to kill themselves.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The architect wants to throw himself off the roof because the nets make it look so ugly but he can’t because he designed it with the ugly nets

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m certain I could easily jump farther than the net even if there was a fence around the top

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    50 Dollars says you can’t

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I couldn’t clear that at a running jump, let alone from a widow.

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• alltomorrowsregrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s there to protect the people on the ground not the jumpers. If you are coming out of the building and someone jumps instead of being killed by a human projectile you get splattered with some fluids and pelted with some chunks. Unpleasant but not fatal.

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cubelets, you say…?

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like the first death in Cube (gore).

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