jackt123

You can't be "dead" if you have never existed.

can you not

I was wondering, recently I read aircraft pilots seats have to be plastic - unpadded because they will basically shatter their spine in an ejection if the seats are padded... Could you explain why this is the case?

Is it to do with the fact that the padding will compress and the bottom (hard bit of the seat) hits the person at the velocity of the ejection as opposed to them accelerating upwards uniformly? Or is there are deeper reason that I am missing?