There is a reason they keep two Soyuz ships docked on the ISS at all times as lifeboats, in case they need to evacuate in a hurry. Those things are bloody expensive; if jumping overboard was a reasonable alternative, it'd be vastly preferable to keeping ten tons of ironmongery and heat shields on hand.
Having said that, see 1963's Project MOOSE:
I'm not saying that it is possible to jump from the ISS, just that the presence of a lifeboat doesn't demonstrate that any other evacuation route is impossible.
Rolls eyes
It's stuff I was taught about in physics lessons at grammar school, circa age 15, back in the 1970s. Have things slipped so far?
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
from the site guidelines. Granted, this was in reply to an article rather than another commenter, but I think the principle is the same.
Yes. :(
It looks like, for now at least, the answer is no.
In the real world knowledge of this stuff is vanishingly thin actually. Real world - the thing out there, with people and trees and stuff.