{"id":3069,"date":"2008-01-18T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/i_fought_the_laws_of_physics_and_kicked_its_ass.html"},"modified":"2008-01-18T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:52:00","slug":"i_fought_the_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/i_fought_the_la.html","title":{"rendered":"I Fought The Laws Of Physics . . . And Kicked Its Ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you ever find yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/you_fall_47_sto.html\">free falling 47 stories on window-washer scaffolding<\/a>, know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01182008\/news\/regionalnews\/science_of_window_washers_miracle_recove_247133.htm\">there are steps you can take to survive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>By all accounts, Alcides Moreno should have died instantly, as did his brother and fellow window washer, Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>Though neither dismisses the merciful hand of God, a physics expert and the critical-care physician who treated Moreno agree he was saved by a fortunate chain of events.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Schwartz, professor of physics at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, theorizes that the scaffolding beneath Moreno created enough wind resistance to slow his free-fall speed from 100 mph to 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p>That would be enough to make it seem more like an eight-story fall, which is still enough to kill most people.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz also speculates Moreno was lying flat on the scaffold platform and it probably hit the ground with a corner first, which would further reduce the impact.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you ever find yourself free falling 47 stories on window-washer scaffolding, know that there are steps you can take to survive: By all accounts, Alcides Moreno should have died instantly, as did his brother and fellow window washer, Edgar. Though neither dismisses the merciful hand of God, a physics expert and the critical-care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}