Cliff-jumping!

[deadly7]

LOL OWEND HAGEN. LOLOLOLOOL

[dark_drake]

I've only been cliff-jumping once, but it was fun.  As long as I jumped out far enough, I wouldn't hit the bottom.  The best part was the feeling that time had stopped when I was free-falling.

[Joe]

Exactly. You feel not bound by gravity, like you're in a void. Of course, you realize you were indeed bound by gravity, and very much so, when you stop falling. =)

Makes me want to go skydiving sometime. The freefall sensation would be a whole lot better if it lasted more than a second or two.

EDIT -
deadly, I'm not sure if you're blind or what, but I did hurt myself cliff-jumping.

[rabbit]

Really?  Every time I went cliff jumping I felt bound by gravity.  Maybe that was because, you know, I was going DOWN.

[deadly7]

You're clearly not hurt enough.

[Blaze]

You're clearly not hurt enough.

Owned.

[Sidoh]

The acceleration is still rather obvious to me because of air friction. :|

[Joe]

Yeah, that was the biggest giveaway. I had trouble keeping my arms down next to my body (they flew out to the sides, which would hurt hitting the water flat out).

[MyndFyre]

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Really?  Every time I went cliff jumping I felt bound by gravity.  Maybe that was because, you know, I was going DOWN.

Except when you're touching absolutely nothing around you (except for air, before you feel the need to point that out), you feel weightless for a few seconds.

20 ft you said?  Acceleration due to gravity, g = -32ft/s²
Solve for t: -20 = -16t²
t² = 1.25
t = 1.12s to fall 20 feet.

60 ft?
-60 = -16t²
t² = 3.75
t = 1.93s to fall 60 feet.

In neither case was it "a few seconds."  You didn't even make "a couple" seconds.

To make 3 seconds:
dx = -16(3)²
dx = -144

You'd fall 144 feet in 3 seconds, and you'd be traveling at a velocity of -96ft/s, give or take for air resistance.

[deadly7]

zomg.  Reading that with "feet" instead of "meters" hurt my brain for a second.  Stupid American system..

[MyndFyre]

zomg.  Reading that with "feet" instead of "meters" hurt my brain for a second.  Stupid American system..

Yeah I know (9.8m/s²).  But I'm stuck here.

[CrAz3D]

zomg.  Reading that with "feet" instead of "meters" hurt my brain for a second.  Stupid American system..

You can understand "meters"?

[Joe]

I often find myself saying "meters" in place of yards out of habit.

[Blaze]

The yard, feet, inch, * system is the stupidest ever.

[Joe]

Yep. I live in the US and still can't tell you how many feet are in a mile. I don't live in Canada and can *easily* tell you there's 1000 meters in a kilometer.