A science question for semi accurate yet fictional story idea concepts

I am working on a fictional story, but I want to have a few accurate scientifically accurate (or as close as possible) situations. Question one is: if a person falling at full terminal velocity, or higher speeds, was somehow grabbed (by the torso region) and the grabber turned the falling person from a vertical angle to 45 positive degrees horizontal (opposite the side they were falling), could that redirection keep the falling person survive if they landed with a roll after the redirection.

(that's the best way to describe it, but to clarify, imagine someone falling straight down to a character's right, the standing character grabs the falling person on the right, redirects them toward the left at a horizontal angle and instead of going for a direct 90 degree shift the instead to a 45 degree (or any angle between 45 and 90) would the falling person be able to survive this sort of redirection?)

My guess, is that if the catcher could survive the obvious force of the falling person without his/her arms tearing off, that the person who got redirected (if done properly) should be able to survive the force as it would change from a sudden stop of great force to a slightly more controlled landing, and could be even more survivable if they rolled to a stop.

posted almost 7 years ago

Flamesofshadow‭

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