And it’s a long day, livin’ in Reseda
There’s a freeway, runnin’ through the yard
And I’m a bad boy, ‘cause I don’t even miss her
I’m a bad boy for breakin’ her heart
And I’m free, free fallin’
Yeah I’m free, free fallin’
And it’s a long day, livin’ in Reseda
There’s a freeway, runnin’ through the yard
And I’m a bad boy, ‘cause I don’t even miss her
I’m a bad boy for breakin’ her heart
And I’m free, free fallin’
Yeah I’m free, free fallin’
I suspect 30 day would be the bare minimum to become a skeleton and that’s a huge give to the math. If it takes 30 days then the free faller would make it in 56 hours. Which is plausible to survive for that long without food or water.
But if decomposition takes longer, which is likely, then our free faller could not reach the skeleton alive. If our free faller packed some supplies though this could add more decomposition time
Decomposition would likely be slower in this environment too. It would be harder for worms and maggots and so on to get a foothold. You’d have to rely mostly on bacterial means of decomposition
I mean, the comic shows a skeleton, but I’m reasonably certain that the skeleton wouldn’t be intact by the time it looks like that. The jumpsuit might (big might there) keep some of it in place, but there’s no way the hands are still gripping toggles and the skull is there, looking upwards in horror. I think we can give everything we’re talking about some pretty big leeway and make things work.
Plus we could always give our freefaller some superspeed by making him want to practice his speed competitions. World record right now is somewhere around 374mph, I think. That’s over 500fps, and probably means we could expect him, with a little pack of water, to be alive for long enough to reach ludicrous distances compared to the canopy pilot. Even if he’s only a wannabe speed star, I’m betting the scenario is plausible. Not from what we see, obviously, with him doing cannonball rolls and belly falling.