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Old 04-10-2009, 22:37
Xadlei Xemnas
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In hollyoaks.

It was a good scene but I was suprised that she didn't position herself for the impact. At least lifting your legs up and getting into a cover position. There was enough air behind her.

Then again if that happened she may have survived so I guess it was intentional.

Just a bit of an odd thing.
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Old 04-10-2009, 22:40
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It would have probally killed her anyway. I guess when your falling like that you can't really regain control of your body and the shear fear takes away any rational thinking away, so she would not of even thought of how to survive.
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Old 04-10-2009, 23:06
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She wouldn't have survived the fall regardless of how she positioned herself, he was falling to the ground at and incredibly fast speed and from a very big height no one would survive it unless she hit something to break her fall - like a tree - plus she was probably in a panic it would happen so quick i doubt you would have time to even think about what you were doing.
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Old 04-10-2009, 23:10
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To be fair, nobody could survive that. Nobody, unless she suddenly flew away. Maybe if she would have landed in water, she could have survived, the but the impact would have probably knocked her out and killed her anyway. I don't see how changing her position would have helped her. She would probably still have broken every bone in her body.
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Old 04-10-2009, 23:12
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They wanted to kill her off also.

In reality though only a few people have survived a fall like that without something breaking their fall and a few more hitting things on the way down breaking falls..

To be fair, nobody could survive that. Nobody, unless she suddenly flew away. Maybe if she would have landed in water, she could have survived, the but the impact would have probably knocked her out and killed her anyway. I don't see how changing her position would have helped her. She would probably still have broken every bone in her body.


It is meant to be better to land on your back.
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Old 04-10-2009, 23:34
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It is incredibly rare under any circumstances that anyone would survive such a fall from a great height that there has only been a few recorded case of a person surviving a parachute drop from high altitude, and they all suffered injuries, and even then they survives as they had something to break their fall, slowing them down.
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Old 04-10-2009, 23:38
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I think only one person has survived without a fall breaker. The rest have landed in tree branches, grass heeps, snow. Or grabbed plane debry or another passenger.
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Old 04-10-2009, 23:45
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Yes, because when your hurtling towards terra firma, seconds away from death, or - at the very least, permanant paralysis and spinal damage, your completely rational.
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Old 05-10-2009, 00:20
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After recently doing a sky dive (before Sarah's fatal one, thank goodness!) I was told that when sky divers know that their parachute isn't going to open, they very often die midair, of a heart attack, I'm guessing!
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Old 05-10-2009, 01:40
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Yeah but Sarah screamed all the way down right down to that thud I would have imagined shock alone would have killed her so I don't know whether it was correct to her screaming all the way down.
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Old 05-10-2009, 01:50
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Yeah but Sarah screamed all the way down right down to that thud I would have imagined shock alone would have killed her so I don't know whether it was correct to her screaming all the way down.
It's a tv programme, not real life.
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Old 05-10-2009, 02:00
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I know it is.
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Old 05-10-2009, 02:01
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I know this is off-topic but I was recently in New York visiting Ground Zero. We were talking to people who work there, people who knew all the stories about 9/11. The subject came onto the people who jumped from the buildings and we thought the shock would probably kill them before they hit the ground - we were told that's not the case.

As it's been mentioned in this thread, there have been a few cases of people surviving these accidents, only because they've had something that's broken their fall. Why didn't shock kill them? As scary as it all is, they probably live right up to the second of impact.
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Old 05-10-2009, 10:32
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Actually you won't die in mid air because as with falling out of a plane you pass out, for the first thousand feet. But then you regain conciousness, you can't control that. The air pressure actually keeps you breathing but only a little bit, untill you reach your terminal velocity and at this point all the air is available again just before the ten seconds and more before impact. You'd be shaken, and when you approach the ground you are going faster but more air is available, so you are going to sense the decent to the ground a lot more.
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Old 05-10-2009, 12:38
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I know this is off-topic but I was recently in New York visiting Ground Zero. We were talking to people who work there, people who knew all the stories about 9/11. The subject came onto the people who jumped from the buildings and we thought the shock would probably kill them before they hit the ground - we were told that's not the case.

As it's been mentioned in this thread, there have been a few cases of people surviving these accidents, only because they've had something that's broken their fall. Why didn't shock kill them? As scary as it all is, they probably live right up to the second of impact.
was going to say something about the jumpers ..think its some sort of urban myth that people die before hitting the ground ..

the really gruesome in me wanted to know what her injuries were look liked she landed on her back.
did like the blood spattered corn
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Old 05-10-2009, 13:09
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I just watched this bit on You tube..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L79iz94U_eE

I thought the policeman mightve said ''can i come in, i got some bad news'' or summat instead of him telling mike on the doorstep, like he did..
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Old 05-10-2009, 13:11
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Im going to post in this thread properly once my mind comes up with a sufficient Lesbian related joke, in relation to the thread title...
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Old 05-10-2009, 14:12
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I've watched it again *shudder*. I noticed that she's falling much faster than I thought she was and that she appears to hit the ground on her front.

Also the blood. I wonder why they didn't show the body. They did not hold back on everything else......

You can really feel that scene. Its horrifying.
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Old 05-10-2009, 14:16
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I've watched it again *shudder*. I noticed that she's falling much faster than I thought she was and that she appears to hit the ground on her front.

Also the blood. I wonder why they didn't show the body. They did not hold back on everything else......

You can really feel that scene. Its horrifying.
Worst was the actual look on sarahs face. that was horrific.
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Old 05-10-2009, 14:26
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It probably is the best death scene there has been in a soap. It felt like a real death.

It will probably be censored at the soap awards unfortunately.
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Old 05-10-2009, 14:37
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I've watched it again *shudder*. I noticed that she's falling much faster than I thought she was and that she appears to hit the ground on her front.

Also the blood. I wonder why they didn't show the body. They did not hold back on everything else......

You can really feel that scene. Its horrifying.
Given the amount of blood the body would have been in pieces. Hollyoaks is still only a soap and I think it would be too much to show a regular character smashed to bits.
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Old 05-10-2009, 16:41
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you do see a shot looking down on to the body but it is covered by the shute
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Old 05-10-2009, 16:43
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And also I guess not showing the body leaves more to imagination and all..

The look on her face the scream and thud gah!!!
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Old 05-10-2009, 16:47
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In hollyoaks.

It was a good scene but I was suprised that she didn't position herself for the impact. At least lifting your legs up and getting into a cover position. There was enough air behind her.

Then again if that happened she may have survived so I guess it was intentional.

Just a bit of an odd thing.
I think that in that situation, they probably would have to remove her body which had been enbedded into the ground. No matter how she fell, she probably wouldn't have survived. I mean there was blood all over the grass, she must have been falling very fast.
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Old 05-10-2009, 18:13
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Agreed. She would never have survived it anyhow.

And i don't think they needed to show the body and i don't think i'd have particularly wanted them to! Gross!
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