Timeline for Would a horse be sufficient buffer to prevent injury when falling from a great height?
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| Sep 26, 2019 at 7:06 | comment | added | Grimm The Opiner |
@jamesqf Except that it's going to be a short cliff, it would have to be a well chosen cliff. But this is a story, so, that's easy. : )
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| Sep 25, 2019 at 17:23 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Grimm The Opiner: Except that it's going to be a short cliff, and a live horse is probably going to panic. FWIW, my experience is that while horses are ok jumping over things (at least when trained), they are very reluctant to jump down. They really don't have a lot of depth perception. | |
| Sep 25, 2019 at 14:51 | comment | added | Grimm The Opiner | This would be the perfect answer if you expanded on point 1. With the right size cliff the horse's legs could buckle and absorb the fall, while injuring the horse but preserving Tarn. Literally using the horse legs as a crumple zone. Without the horse it would've been Tarn's legs, but he had the horse so everyone's happy! (Except the horse.) | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 18:43 | vote | accept | Obscerno | ||
| S Sep 24, 2019 at 11:04 | history | suggested | Timo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fix list numbering.
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| Sep 24, 2019 at 4:39 | comment | added | John | agreed the horse does not help in anyway whatsoever. The horse's bones are stronger than human bones by a wide margin so when you hit it, your bones are more likely to give way than the horses, thus the shock absorption is minimal. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 4:14 | comment | added | Arkenstein XII | Honestly, I think I'd rather hit the ground than land on a horse from 20m. Broken horse bones don't sound like a lot of fun to be perforated by. | |
| Sep 24, 2019 at 4:01 | history | answered | jamesqf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |