Couple falls 3500ft to their deaths

[Insert a name]

You guys seen this?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10...tes-taft-point/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

2 people fell 3500ft to their deaths in Yosemite national park. Nice spot if you can get there, damn long drop!

 

[Fallingsky]

You guys seen this?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10...tes-taft-point/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

2 people fell 3500ft to their deaths in Yosemite national park. Nice spot if you can get there, damn long drop!

So incredibly sad.

 

[worldexploder]

Wow could you imagine looking down from a place that high? At least you know the death was instant and they got what they wanted.

 

[Metavoid]

Jeez imagine what they must have been thinking or feeling while dropping. That feeling of "we are literally about to be no more and there's piss all we can do about it"

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

It's hard for me to really say much because I like the idea of jumping, and there's a nice finality, almost a sense of romance, about going out with your partner together like that. However, still very shitty for them of course.

 

[Fallingsky]

Wow could you imagine looking down from a place that high? At least you know the death was instant and they got what they wanted.

From what I've read they were hikers not suicide jumpers. I've been to that spot and posed for that same photo, easy to see how you could fall. I cannot even begin to imagine that drop.

 

[worldexploder]

From what I've read they were hikers not suicide jumpers. I've been to that spot and posed for that same photo, easy to see how you could fall. I cannot even begin to imagine that drop.

Oh my bad. For some reason I thought they decided to jump.

 

[Schopenhauer]

Beautiful place. If were an American, I'd consider going there. That's a good way to die with a partner.

 

[Roph]

From what I've read they were hikers not suicide jumpers. I've been to that spot and posed for that same photo, easy to see how you could fall. I cannot even begin to imagine that drop.

That's gotta be a horrible trip down, whether or not you're committing suicide.

 

[couldntthinkofaname]

@Arak

 

[Rollo]

Wow could you imagine looking down from a place that high? At least you know the death was instant and they got what they wanted.

Not if branches of some ultra tall record breaking tree could help it.

 

[Arak]

@couldntthinkofaname ,

Thanks ! But I'm in Europe, not in good health. Logistics ...

 

[Insert a name]

Wow could you imagine looking down from a place that high? At least you know the death was instant and they got what they wanted.

I think it was an accident. It was a couple on their honeymoon. Unlikely time for a doible suicide

 

[MAIO]

That's gotta be a horrible trip down, whether or not you're committing suicide.

Nah. So fast your brain can't process it. It's not some long drop. It's like 2 seconds max.

 

[sadak_the_wanderer]

This is incorrect. You will reach terminal velocity in twelve seconds, after falling about 1,500 feet. The remaining 2,000 feet would be traveled at roughly 120 miles per hour, for another eleven or twelve seconds. Given that they were doubtlessly clutching at one another, that would have increased their drag coefficient even further. So let's say a good twenty-seven to thirty seconds of falling. And screaming.

 

[Dogsbody]

This is incorrect. You will reach terminal velocity in twelve seconds, after falling about 1,500 feet. The remaining 2,000 feet would be traveled at roughly 120 miles per hour, for another eleven or twelve seconds. Given that they were doubtlessly clutching at one another, that would have increased their drag coefficient even further. So let's say a good twenty-seven to thirty seconds of falling. And screaming.

Damn