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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7078163" data-attributes="member: 19675">For the occupant to be damaged by the fall, there has to be.Newton's 1st: "An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force."When the ORS goes over a cliff, it's movement can only be affected by an unbalanced force.  That is conveniently supplied by the ground.The occupant has the same momentum as the ORS did, and normally, would follow the same rules.  If the sphere were an unpadded concrete one, the physicist would say that the unbalanced force that stops the momentum of the occupant has the same source, the ground.  The sphere acts as a conduit for the ground's application of an unbalanced force.But the ORS explicitly prohibits this kind of transfer of energy.The ORS isn't supplying the unbalanced force.The inhabitant can't be the source of both the momentum AND the unbalanced force that stops him unless he's got thrusters.The only source of the unbalanced force that stops the ORS and its inhabitant is the ground itself.And the only difference between the ground impact and that of a weapon is amount.</blockquote>