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How durable would a person need to be to survive impact at terminal velocity?

For a fantasy race, or for bio-augmented humans, how durable would they have to be to walk away from a 1000ft free fall unscathed? And how would this logically translate to other forms of durability? ...
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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 4: respiratory system

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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 6: Radiation protection

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Biological super skin

In this world human-like people have skin that is unbelievably difficult to cut through and I was wondering what biologically creatable material is flexible enough to act as skin but it also ...
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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton [closed]

Sometimes you just want to have a dragon, giant scorpion or a superhuman that has a bit more realism behind it than "it's strong, fast, can jump extreme distances despite it's weight and it's smart, ...
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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 2: nervous system

Part 1 here: Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 1: Skeleton This question is about a complete rebuild of the nervous system. The question as proposed here: Improving human ...
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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 8: Communication

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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 7: Hearing

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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 5: Heart and circulatory system

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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, addendum: Metabolism

A while back Demigan had a running series of posts about various aspects biological enhancement for the purpose of designing super-soldiers with an element of (pseudo) science behind them. You can ...
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Creating a scientifically semi-valid super-soldier, part 9: Temperature control

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