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How could a man fall from the sky and not be killed?
Here's another description of how the impact suit works:
Here's another quote from Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers:
Louis landed flat on his face, in an impact suit gone rigid as steel. The form-fitting coffin supported him, but he ess still stunned...
Although Gerrold and Niven share authorship of the book, the impact suit is Niven's idea; see Flexible Armor Suit from The Soft Weapon, a short story published in 1967. Comment/Join this discussion ( 8 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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