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Why water stops acting like water

Squeeze water as hard as you like — it barely gives. The Geological Survey calls it essentially incompressible: its only way out is to move aside.

Fall from ten meters and you hit at about thirty miles an hour. The water has milliseconds to move aside, and that isn't enough. Your body decelerates almost as hard as if you had landed on something solid.

The water never changed. Only the time you gave it did.

Source: usgs.gov

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