system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why can an ant fall from several feet up and live to walk away, yet if a person fell from the same relative height they would die?
gpt
In physics, there exists a term called terminal velocity. It describes the max speed of an object will fall taken into the effects of gravity and air resistance. 

An ant has a very low terminal velocity, where on the other hand a human has fairly high terminal velocity. To put into perspective the difference, imagine this: in order for an ant to reach terminal velocity, it only needs to fall around 1 story, or around 4 meters, whereas a human needs the entire height of the Empire State Building to reach terminal velocity.

Just imagine dropping a piece of paper and a bowling ball, where the paper is the ant and the ball is you.