Originally published at: Daredevils in banana hammocks set an unbreakable world record - Boing Boing
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Budgie Smugglers do not help you fly, lads.
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Um, just look at it?
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The whole Scrubs clip.
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The upper survival limits of human tolerance to impact velocity in water are evidently close to 100 ft/sec (68.2 mph) corrected velocity, or the equivalent of a 186-foot free-fall. As is illustrated in Figure 3, there is a fairly constant survival frequency distribution up to 100 ft/sec, but survival incidence at higher levels drops off abruptly and includes younger individuals only.
Regrouping these cases of survival by arbitrary class intervals as in Fig 4 shows this pattern with an abrupt peak at a 100-ft/sec impact velocity. Twenty-five percent of these individuals indrit si survived extreme impact in water at from 90 to 100 ft/sec, while only 4.9% survived a greater impact at any level.
but, of course, that’s from 1965, so several decades of voluntary high diving might have changed the estimate.
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Noooopeee. Nope, nope, nope.
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But they do tend to stay on when one hits the water at that speed.
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Ow my balls
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Budgie smugglers offer a little respite there, too. 
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The scene of the record dive looks a lot like
which later closed and the land became Oracle Corp headquarters for a while.
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Was hoping someone would make this comment. 
Right? You could end up in the Banana Depubic.
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One of the techs at my first employer told me of the time he coached his kid’s team. One little kid (8 or 9-years old) playing shortstop got a hard smash to the balls, doubled over then rolled to the ground, hands cupped over his groin. Said the kid, crying: “Coach! Am I ruined?!”
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For the BBS set
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First error: He’s not accelerating faster than a Formula One car. He’s accelerating at 1 G, a Formula One car “acceleration figure is usually 1.45 g (14.2 m/s2) up to 200 km/h (124 mph)”.
Is that an African or European swallow?
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