If you were falling from a high place standing on top of a stack of chairs and as you were approaching the ground you would produce a downwards force onto to stack, making the lowest chair fall down and you continued doing this, could that slow down your speed enough for you to survive?

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Edit: Obviously assuming you can actually control the stack well enough to make just one chair fall each time so you don’t lose the entire stack, this is not a question about practicality just about a theoretical situation

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Answer 1

Technically yes, assuming you had enough mass in chairs or enough shoving force. In essence, you are just describing a *really weird* rocket propulsion system.