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

Like your five? It’s possible but not practical.

You would need a decouple force that exerts force upwards and something like airbags or explosives could make the force but not the duration to slow you down.

The longer you fall the more acceleration you gain due to gravity force making it harder to slow down due to inertia. Also if you slow down too fast you will not survive.