• Question: if you jumped out of a helocopter and landed on millions of bubbles wou;d you be hurt

    Asked by grbabcock to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 21 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      My guess would be yes, unless the helicopter was only a foot off the ground. Bubbles don’t support much weight, because their surface tension isn’t very strong. Millions of layers of bubble paper? Perhaps.

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      you know what i think you probably would be, i guess they would all pop!! Would it be into water??

    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Hi Grbabcock

      Oh yes, I think you’d hurt yourself pretty badly. Even a gigantic mountain of billions of bubbles would offer almost no protection against a big fall.

    • Photo: Eoin Lettice

      Eoin Lettice answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      Hi grbabcock,
      I don’t know is the honest answer.
      I imagine you would get hurt, since you would be falling quite far and pick up a lot of speed. While there would be lots of bubbles, they still wouldnt be very strong and you’d still hit the ground fairly hard. Probably hard enough to kill you.

      However, you don’t say whether the helicopter is in the air or not. What if you jumped from a helicopter that was on the ground? Then you’d be perfectly safe!

      Eoin

    • Photo: Jemma Ransom

      Jemma Ransom answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      erm, I guess it depends on how high the helicopter is, what the bubbles were made of, and how many bubbles you would be falling onto. If it was a distance of a few feet and onto a big sheet of bubble wrap, you might escape major injury. However if you fell from many thousands of feet onto millions of soap sud bubbles the outcome might not be so great. Either way, don’t try this at home!

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