What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

The upper limits of human survival from jumping into water is about 186 feet (or 56.7 meters).

I found this after watching this scene from Lethal Weapon 2 and wondering how likely it would be for Riggs and Getz to survive such a fall:




I haven’t been able to find stats for the height of the InterContinental Los Angeles Century City where this was shot (or at least the exteriors were), but unless their average floor height is about 31 feet, they’d likely make it. If it was anything but water, they’d probably be dead.

Then again, this is the same movie where a diplomat can get away with being a violent drug lord just because he’s a diplomat.