Sunday, August 7, 2011

Fast Five/physics question?

I know this is just Hollywood and basically everything that happens in this movie is unbelieveable, yet really entertaining. Why let the truth get in the way of a good story right? Anyway, I wonder about one scene in particular and if it is even humanly possible. After Vin Diesel pulls a car along side of Paul Walker and a train and saves him from certain death, they drive the car off a cliff that had to be several hundred feet high towards a lake or river. The car is a convertible so they climb on top and a little bit before impact they jump off the car and land in the water, feet first. Not taking into account the depth of the water, would it be possible for them to survive by doing this? Wouldn't they have had to jump up at the same speed that the car was falling down? Or since they were impacting water and not solid ground maybe they don't have to jump off at the same speed? This stunt just intrigued me. Good movie though if you just wanna see some almost non-stop action.

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