• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    It’s really all about impact angles and tension. Being passed out you’re not tense and therefore have more “give” on impact, less likely to get that type of major damage. Same reason drunks who crash are often fine while their victims die. Bone is very good at parallel impact, not as good with perpendicular or angled impacts. As a girl bone density is also generally lower which ain’t great in this situation.

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      3 months ago

      An alternative explanation is that the bunk bed was on a hut at the top of a mountain, the door was open and she only stopped when she reached the valley below.

      (I might have watched too much of Looney Tunes in my childhood)