I failed all my science courses, I don’t understand much about science but why doesn’t the water just… move like when you jump in normally?
In: Planetary Science
Water is not “soft” relative to you. Jumping into water is a bit like a head-on car crash.
Water is heavy – it doesn’t want to move easily. It’s actually as heavy as you – you’re mostly water yourself anyway, so you’ve very similar density (most people are actually slightly less dense than water). So the water is trying to push you out of the way as hard as you’re trying to push it. Yes, you have a bit more structure, so you can break an entry with the hard bits of your body such as your feet up to a point – but the water IS still resisting, so that ONLY works up to a point – and above quite small heights, if you hit even slightly wrong, you’re going to squish almost as much as it does.
From too high up, it’s not going to end well, in other words.
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