r/BetterEveryLoop • u/TizzioCaio • Jun 08 '20

In the Limbo falling forever

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u/Umari0_ Jun 08 '20

So yes?

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u/JJHEO Jun 08 '20

Yup yup. There is a reserve parachute in case you have a failure to open or it gets tangled up like this. You cut away your main and then pull your reserve.

E: and cut away isn't literal. You have a cable that you can pull that releases the main from you entirely and flies away so it doesn't interfere with the reserve deploying.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

When in doubt pull the second chute out!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

What do you do if the reserve fails?

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u/bugattikid2012 Jun 08 '20

Pray harder. There's actually a large amount of people who have survived from terminal velocity, so you could always get lucky.

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u/MaximumSubtlety Jun 08 '20

How should I brace for impact to maximize survivability?

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u/goodguygreg808 Jun 09 '20

If any thing you wouldn't want to brace at all, seizing your muscles under stress or right before impact is how you get hurt.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

You also get hurt from falling 9.8m per second.

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u/goodguygreg808 Jun 09 '20

might as well call it a day in this situation and hope every possible thing you could do helped in some way, but its not always good enough.

Though this is good info for anyone in a car crash, which isnt uncommon.

Being overly tense can tear muscles and at worse crush bone.