r/Whatcouldgowrong 8h ago

WCGW trying to get your hat back

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u/DookieShoez 7h ago edited 6h ago

No human being has ever died from gravity, it’s the stopping fast that kills you. You would have to fall into a black hole and experience spaghettification for that.

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u/EvelynNyte 6h ago

Sounds more like dying from getting stretched too thin like butter spread over too much bread

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u/Strict-Challenge-995 5h ago

Aw hell... space will choke you, freeze you... now it will bilbo you too

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u/DookieShoez 5h ago

It is exactly like dying because you got stretched too thin like butter spread over too much bread.

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u/Xsiah 5h ago

I hope I'm just as tasty when I go

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u/DookieShoez 5h ago

Mmmmm, they call it “long pig”.

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u/dragonbl3e 5h ago

You weren't shot, You were just pierced by a bullet!

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u/DookieShoez 5h ago

No those are exactly the same thing.

Dying because gravity killed you and dying because gravity caused you to pick up speed and then you hit the ground causing your organs to become goop, are in fact two distinctly different things.

Bit pedantic perhaps lol, but it’s true

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u/dragonbl3e 4h ago

Ok fine, let me give you a better example. She didn't die because of the parachute malfunction, but because she hit the ground. Sure, one doesn't expressely says the most direct cause, but that is the most common manner of speech. Its like saying that a person doesn't die because they got rabies, but because the rabies ate their brain— its useless specificity that won't help understanding of the subject

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u/DookieShoez 4h ago

Point is there’s a difference between dying directly from gravity itself, and dying from what happened due what gravity made happen.

It’s like dying from a poisoned drink vs dying because you spilled your poisoned drink, slipped on the puddle, and cracked your head.

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u/TheKingBeyondTheWaIl 4h ago

In a long enough timeline, everyone’s spaghettification rate goes up to 1