Physics rule

Peter Arbeitslos@feddit.de to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 186 points –
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But also Jimmy (or whoever saved him) now has two broken arms thanks to a human sized object falling onto them at terminal velocity.

... Two broken arms...? Oh no... I remembered that Reddit post.

There are some things that should remain in the garbagereddit. This is one of them.

His brain definitely would NOT experience the same g-forces as hitting concrete. You have less than an inch of deceleration space against a surface that hard, whereas getting caught by superman would probably give you at least twice as much space, if not way more, which would reduce your g-forces by more than half

But superman is flying pretty fast to catch Timmy, so Timmy would get hit from 2 sides.

Force is a vector so that's a VERY different g-force if it's in a new direction