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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 3093015" data-attributes="member: 13107">Yep, that doesn't make senseYah, that doesn't make sense.You should take damage for the height fallen, and then some for brushing against theground.If you fell against a very smooth and slippery surface, say, the surface of a frozen lake,then you should take *no* additional damage for the horizontal motion.  (Unless you slide,at speed, into a horizontal obstruction later on.)If you hit a *very* sticky surface (say, a human sized fly strip), then you should probablytake about the same amount of damage as if your horizontal speed were vertical.  Thephysics looks a little different, but the imact event will need to dissipate all of the energyin a short amount of time, so I'm thinking about the same amount of damage.Middle case, you will bounce, slide, or tumble along horizontally, at each impact scrapingthe ground and taking some damage from that, and other damage as your horizontalmovement is partially transformed into a spin.  I'm not quite sure how that would work, butI imagine that there would be a number of smaller impacts as you tumble unevenly alongthe ground.If you somehow manage to not spin, you'll have a long painful scrape.  If you were wearingheavy clothing, this is perhaps not so bad.  If you are lightly clothed, that will be a lot ofbloody scrapage.(I've actually done this while skiiing.  Clipped someone at speed, with a long slide inthe snow afterwards.  Clipping the other person knocked the wind out of me, and I waspretty stunned and shaken up by the whole event, but came out with no harm thatlasted more than about 10 min.  I imagine I was going 30-40 mph, or 45-60 fps.)Note that 60 mph is about 88 feet per second.  I usually approximate it as just 90 feetper second, as that makes the math simple.  A world class sprinter can run 300 feetin ten seconds, for an average of 30 feet per second, or about 20 mph.  That's aboutone seconds of downward accelleration, or about 15 feet fallen.Meaning, if you are very, very, good, you should be able to handle being pushed out ofa car going up to about 20 mph by hitting the ground running.Btw, that makes going 60 mph *about* the same as falling 120 or so feet.  Whichis to say that 60 mph is quite fast.  You *don't* want to be hit by a car going 60.</blockquote>

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