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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Since water displaces energy evenly throughout its body, could you survive a long fall by being in a mid-air body of water or a container full of it? My 9 year old asked me something similar to this and I didn't have an answer.

EDIT: This got a lot bigger than I exected. Wow! Hard to believe a casual conversation from DND lead to this. I want to thank everyone who has answered and responded. There is a lot of science to learn here and I am grateful for all of it!
gpt
The shock wave could kill you. Look at this problem from a different perspective, if you were in a container at rest full of water and sealed then the container was impacted with say a train, but not damaged, the shock wave inside the container would kill you. Water does actually compress under extreme force. this is how sound is conducted and shock waves. The ripple of "sound" in a shock wave would tear your tissues apart. You would be intact but dead.