The look on her face after she resurfaces is one of pain and astonishment.

Wow.

"She wasn't down far enough."

It just goes to show you: One person's childhood trauma, 100 million people's entertainment.

DAMN!!

Firstly: MAN that looks like fun.
Secondly: I can see how that would be utterly terrifying for someone if they were not expecting that kind of air... that was huge... and having that much time to be spinning around up there would be pretty scary. I feel sorry for her.

Yeah, I'd say 20 feet counts as SEVERAL.

*eia

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At least they were smart enough to strap a life vest on her.

If she wasn't down far enough, who's fault is that exactly.

Backflops are not funny. Stop laughing.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
It just goes to show you: One person's childhood trauma, 100 million people's entertainment.

In your case it goes: The birth of one person, 100 million people's shame and dismay.

Ok, let's assume she's really short, 5 foot.

She's easily 10 times her height into the air, 50 feet.

Landing on your back from 50 feet can cause major injury, I hope she's ok.

and wtf is up with KP and RS? It's getting old, whatever it is.

As traumatic as that would have been she should be proud in the fact that she is a hero. That was INSANE!

That's not 20 feet, more like 30+ Wow!!

very very possible to stop walking forever after a fall like that. remember it's the same as if she fell out of a (30/40/50) feet window. When she hits, she is going at almost the same speed as she was launched (which was fast). But intuitively it seems "safer" because she started on the ground.

Water is very dense and doesn't move out of the way when you hit it, so at that speed it's more like hitting concrete than water.

who lets their child on this shit without testing it and knowing a tiny bit about the laws of physics?

*eia
*wtf

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It's really just a matter of physics to see how far she fell. When she hits her apex, count the amount of time it takes for her to hit water. Mutiply that by the speed of gravity and presto chango, you got the magic number.

It's hard to get exactly when she hit the max hight as the angle of the cammara isn't the best for that kinda thing...but I get a little over a second and a half give or take. That puts the apex at well over 32 feet...which would scare me so I can't imagine how scary it was for her...that being said, she didn't lose any limbs or drown, so I still think laughing is ok...I know if that were me and my family around the ol watering whole and that happen there would be laughter and stuff aplunty.

A lot of times, kids take emotinal queing from the people around them, so sometimes, laughing at potentinally scary things can lighten the mood even for them, not always though, but thats just my 2 cents.

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gross negligence?

I grew up in the contry. City folk sure do get in a fuss about any and everything when it comes to kidos. We once chased a bull that got out from our neighboors farm in our VW bus...good times good times.

She needed to be closer to the end of the air bag. Then she would have been propelled at 45 degrees or so rather than virtually straight up.

I can't stop hitting replay....Does that make me bad?

A buddy of mine dislocated his shoulder hitting the water from half that height on the Blob.

Also, my sister nearly drowned when the thing deflated with her on it. It collapsed around her and pulled her under.

Yeeesshh..

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Hello! I am a mysterious visitor from the distant future.
Using the power of mathematics (props to GeeSussFreeK up there), and a rough approximation of 1.38s from apex to smackdown, I have deduced the following:
She fell (flew) just over 30 feet and hit the water at nearly 30 miles an hour.