How did Cooper survive the walk out?
When Cooper jumped, he got cold and wet. He had to get warm and dry. And he had to protect his feet. How did Cooper do that? I mean plausibly, of course, how “could” Cooper have done that?
I realize I am entering into the middle of a very long and detailed analysis of the Cooper case, so I don’t know how thoroughly this has already been covered in the past. And again, please, I’m not trying to step on anyone’s toes. I’m just asking a question about something that I simply don’t understand about the Cooper case. How did Cooper survive the walk out?
I’ve seen many arguments about how Cooper could have survived the jump. In fact that seems to be a central focus of many heated arguments.
But I’ve never seen a single argument explaining how Cooper could have survived the walk out. I’ve even seen survivalists in Cooper documentaries insist that, “I’m a tough guy, and I could survive out in these woods indefinitely!” You mean cold, wet and barefoot? Well, no, no one ever actually asserts that.
Cooper could have worn some sort of thermal underwear discretely beneath his business suit, I suppose. That would delay the onset of hypothermia. But for how long, realistically? How long could a normal human being continue to walk around in the woods that way? I mean, even if Cooper had jumped with a 20-pound bag of Snickers bars, eventually his own body heat is simply going to give out, isn’t it?
It is also my understanding that Cooper was only wearing slip-on loafers at the time of the jump. I don’t see how those loafers managed to stay on Cooper’s feet in a 200 mile-an-hour exit-wind blast. But suppose the loafers miraculously did stay on, and Cooper actually managed to land while still wearing them.
The problem is, Cooper still lands somewhere in the mud. And the suction of that mud is going to try to pull those loafers right off his feet with every step he takes. I don’t see how Cooper makes any real progress in trying to walk that way, if indeed Cooper could still walk at all.
If his loafers did come off during the jump, then Cooper arrived on the ground virtually barefoot, wearing at most a thin pair of freezing-wet socks. He would still be trying to walk out through suctioning mud. I don’t see how any normal human being could continue to walk around that way for any survivable length of time. In rough, wet, muddy terrain wouldn’t any normal human being’s legs go numb fairly quickly, and their feet get pretty badly lacerated and even punctured in fairly short order? If your legs get cold and numb enough, they simply don’t work anymore, no matter how many Snickers bars you eat. So how does Cooper keep walking?
That is my question for the Forum. Cold, wet and either barefoot or wearing slip-on loafers, how does Cooper manage to survive the walk out through all of that freezing-cold, suctioning mud?
Thank you, and best wishes, - John S.
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