When bungee jumping, why is it as damaging to hit cement as water?

Subject: When bungee jumping, why is it as damaging to hit cement as water?

Date: Sat Jan 30 17:02:07 1999
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I am doing a physics project on bungee jumping. I have plenty of information on elasticity, but I do not have anything on the differences of hitting the ground or on hitting water. they say water is just as bad because of surface tension. Could you please ecplain why and offers ideas on how to describe it incorporating with bungee jumping.

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