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Originally posted by Tobbin:
If you jump from a platform that is currently falling, there is not as much resistance for you to gain the momentum you would need to break the downward thrust. You might lessen the impact, but would not likely be able to totally negate it. The main reason being that as you push against the platform, you will be increasing the force pushing it downwards (gravity). Thereby increasing the speed of the platform's descent. Not by a great degree, granted, but still adding slightly. What you would need is something portable that could increase your own downward thrust to the point that you could overcome gravity and your already present velocity. Ergo some kind of coil system or something embedded into the platform that could push you away (possibly via a remote trigger). This, of course, would have to be calculated to a precise moment so that the "push" that you get would be able to safely deposit you to the ground and not another freefall. Also, you would have to engineer the spring to be able to give you just the specific amount of push to negate the acceleration/gravity so that you would not get too much of a push and then be deposited up in a tree or somewhere else. Very tricky stuff that.
That about sums that up.
Hiya, Tobbin! [img]smile.gif[/img]
Haven't seen you around for a while.