Falling matteress

[Beswad]

Would you survive a 10 storey fall with a 'bed matteress' strap on to your body, but ensuring the matteress must fall flat on the opposite side of the person?

[Loosehead]

No

[Skids]

Highly unlikely. You'd probably have more chance of surviving if you strapped it to your back and used it as a parachute.

[Quizmonster]

Skids, that's got to be the funniest response I've seen on AnswerBank for months! I could literally write 'LOL' - an acronym I detest - as I really did laugh out loud. Thanks

[jake-the-peg]

Unlikely but just possible

Vesna Vulovic was a czechoslavakian air stewardess in 1972 when a bomb exploded on the DC-9 she was on. she was strapped to her seat and although badly injured she survived and holds the world record for surviving a fall having come down from 33,000 feet

[gary baldy]

Why dont you try it and get back to us.

[mibn2cweus]

You go first.

[spaced]

a matress averages in about 12 inches of padding. A drop from that height would mean a great force hitting the ground, and 12 inches of foam would not make a hug difference in the amount of bones broken and shattered. I think the answer to your question is a big huge NO.

[xrayspecs]

I once saw Buggs Bunny faling to earth in a hut. Just as the hut was about to hit the ground Buggs stepped out of the hut and was OK.

He was once also in a plane that was crashing, but before it could hit the ground in ran out of fuel and stopped. again Buggs was saved!

I don't know if that helps at all?

[jimmer]

The Tempur matress was apparently developed by nasa and can safely break a persons fall from upto low earth orbit.

jim

[Sequin]

Matresses are like toast - they always fall person side down

[imflyingaway]

why dont u try it out and gain on the job exreience

[qapmoc]

But the surface area of the mattress as a ratio of area to weight compared to a naked body would mean that its terminal velocity would be lower anyway and if you took a fully spring filled mattress it might bounce enough to break your fall, the only problem might be extracting the springs from various parts of your anatomy after the thing had stopped bouncing around.

[xrayspecs]

Any one fancy a pint!!?

[Lakeslass]

I wondered what lol meant. Now I know and whilst reading this correspondence - I did lol

Thanks all of you