Anyone know what happens if you jump at the last second in a falling elevator?
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Mythbusters equation: Elavator speed = 55mph; jump speed 2-3 mph. 60 - 3 = 57 mph = SPLAT!!!\n\nPS The myhtbusters had a 50 story building, and a special contraption that launched the test dummy at the second before impact.
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Oh let him follow you. He's just stalking you.  It could get dangerous...but what the hey.  Seriously, if you have to ask this question, I'm not sure the elevator goes to the top floor.
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1. When you are in a vehicle accelerating downwards at g, and you are accelerating also downwards at g due your mass or weight, there is no interaction between you and the vehicle, that's why the scale shows you're weightless.\nIt is not quite the same as you're in orbit or space, in orbit the gravity force is balanced by the centrifugal force due to the orbital movement, and in space there is practically no gravity.\n2. When you move up at a certain speed , and suddenly elevator is stopped you still have same the speed at that very moment, this meant you are lifted from elevator's floor until the gravitational force stop your move and brings you back to the elevator's floor. In real life this won't happen because speed is relatively slow and there is no chance to stop elevator suddenly (speed=0)\n3. The normal force to the street from drive wheels = 0.5 * mg * cos 4\nthen static friction force max = mu * 0.5 * mg cos 4 = 1 * 0.5 * mg * 0.998 = 0.4988 mg\nF=m*a\n0.4988 mg = m*a\na = 0.4988 *9.81 = 4.893 m/sec**2
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This isn't the first time someone has asked this.\n\nI see a lot of people tackled this question and there are alot of good answers! It is true that if the power goes out you could get trapped, and yes smoke can enter the elevator chamber.  Most newer elevators do have a recall feature if smoke is detected.  No question the best policy is to always use the stairs!\n\nBasically, the problem with older elevators is they have a nasty habit of going to the floor with the fire. This is because the heat from the fire has been known to short out the call system wiring and the elevator controller interprets it the same as someone hitting the button. So if you are riding in the elevator, the dang thing may deliver you right to the floor with the fire! \n\nNewer elevators are usually connected to the building's fire alarm system and/or a series of smoke detectors outside the elevator shaft. In the event the smoke detectors near any of the elevator doors or in the machine rooms trip, the system overrides all call buttons and immediately takes the car to a pre-designated floor (generally the lowest level unless that's the floor the fire was detected on.) The cars can then only be used until the alarm system is reset or the system is overridden with a key. (Firefigters can use this feature. When in override mode, the controller only responds to manual controls from inside the car.)\n\nI hope this answers your question.
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OK This is a Thing where you know The answer, give The situation and then have a group of people ask yes or no questions too try and solve it... OK here is the scenario... A Man lives on the 16th floor of his apartment, when he goes to work he takes the elevator down to the first floor then leaves and goes to work. When he comes home from work he gets in the elevator goes up to the 8th floor then walks up the remaining 8 floors on the stairs... But when it is raining he goes from the 16th floor to the first, goes to work, but when he comes home he goes straight up to the 16th floor...\n\nCommon Question Asked: Are the stairs outside? No (It is a normal apartment)\n\nHint (if needed): He has an umbrella when it is raining\n\nAnswer: The man is a midget (he can only reach the 8th button on the elevator but when he has the umbrella he can use it to hit the 16...)\n\nHope you like it...
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depends on the kind of fall and the trajectory
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fall on purpose after they throw you in the air
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Things to do in an elevator:\n\n1) When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.\n\n2) Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back and go back for more. \n\n3) Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.\n\n4) Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you're on.\n\n5) Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day your day been?"\n\n6) Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "That's mine!"\n\n7) Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.\n\n8) Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.\n\n9) Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.\n\n10) Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on ask them if they hear something ticking. \n\n11) Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.\n\n12) Ask, "Did you feel that?"\n\n13) Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.\n\n14) When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay. Don't panic, They open up again."\n\n15) Swat at flies that don't exist.\n\n16) Tell people that you can see their aura.\n\n17) Call out, "group hug!", then enforce it.\n\n18) Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"\n\n19) Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, Got enough air in there?"\n\n20) Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.\n\n21) Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.\n\n22) Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.\n\n23) Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.\n\n24) Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.\n\n25) Stare, grinning at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I have new socks on."\n\n26) Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other \npassengers, "This is my personal space!"\n\n27.) ask "excuse me, my butt itching, can anyone scratch it for me?" (you are holding things in your two hands)\n\n28.) Turn against the wall and start talking to the wall.\n\n29.) Look at your "invisivle" watch, and take your wrist and ask one of the people "Is this time right?"\n\n30.) Start hummong really loudly like you are meditating "UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...\n\n31.) start doing jumping jacks.\n\n32.) Look at your hand and say out load "woooooow, coool" and wave your hand at the people and say "isn't it wow and cool?"\n\n33.) Sit on the floor and close your eyes, and start snoring really loudly.\n\n34.) Look suddenly at the floor of the elevator and start screaming at the "invisible" squirrel. \n\n==============================...\n\nHello, are you tired of your stinky butt, then get "Stink be Gone" for just 19.95 (plus shipping and handling) in three easy steps:\n\n1.) Take the Powder and apply it to your @$$\n\n2.) Rinse\n\n3.) and wait\n\n(4.) For best result take a dump outside and THEN use the "Stinkt Be gone" powder\n\nRemember, its very limited so call now!! at 1-800-butt-stink\nor go to www.stinkbutt.com
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hell yeah! hah-\n\na couple of days ago, it was time for phys ed. i was walking with some friends, and then in the changing room, i tripped over one's foot - that lead to me falling, smashing into a locker, my gym bag flew away, and my shoes went soaring. my knapsack completely broke my fall, though. but man, i was lying on the ground for about a minute laughing HARD.\n\noh god i love when that happens.
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I heard a myth that if you keep pressing 0 over and over, it will come close to blowing their circuits, and someone will pick up.  I've never tried it, but I've always wanted to, just to see if it's true.  :)
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Depends on whether the lift has reached its maximum velocity and how good a jumper you are. While the lift is accelerating down, your weight is reduced and hence you would need less jumping energy to jump up to the roof. So your chances of hitting the roof are higher...again, no guarantees since it depends on the lift's acceleration and your jumping ability.
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It depends on the acceleration of the elevator.\n\nIf the elevator acceletation is same as the earths gravity then weight will be zero.
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Neglecting all factors, including air resistance, you would fall faster and faster until you passed the center going really fast, and "fall" up to the surface on the other side of the Earth, slower and slower, until you stopped at the surface on the other side. To someone standing there it would seem as if you had been been thrown up from deep in the hole just hard enough to reach the surface. The time it would take to go through the Earth this way would be the same as the time it would take to complete half an orbit around the world, or about 45 minutes.
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Elevators are not necessarily inoperable in a fire.\n\nIf a fire is in the building, most likely you will not be trapped like they show in the movies.  The elevator should go to the lobby floor and open.\n\nThe "use stairs in case of fire" signage is there because:  \n\nA)  The elevators have all gone to the lobby level and can only be operated by firefighters at that point.\n\nB)  To prevent people from getting in an elevator and getting off on a floor where there is a fire.\n\nYou can get stuck in an elevator in a building that has a power outage that has no emergency generator, though.
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when I was falling without a parachute so I decided to move myself on top of an airplane and when I was on top of one I said screw it and jumped off. Then I got help from Superman but while he was holding on to me I accidentally elbowed him in the nuts and he fell and died and that's why you never see him but anyway I started falling again and then I said, "Sora help me!" Then Sora from Kingdom Hearts came and he was flying some how and I said, "Show me your Keyblade" and when he did he dropped it so then he got mad and fell so I yelled, "WTF!!" and I kept on falling and I landed and I died but then when I went to Heaven, and the Fire God Ifrit said that i will have to go find Organization XIII on Earth so he brought me back to life and now I'm searching for Organization XIII and recent rumors say that someone saw a guy with a black coat. So I have to search for that guy and if I don't find The Organization before Ifrit is able to beat Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts II, Ifrit will kill me and take me to hell!
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assuming that you could do it and you didnt die and all that, you would go through to the other side.  if you include air resistance, you wouldnt make it to the other side, you would accelarate until you reached the center of the earth or until you reached terminal velocity, then you would start slowing down after you passed the center.  you would then start falling back toward the center in the opposite direction, passing it again, you would oscillate back and forth like this, losing some distance from center on each pass, eventually you would come to rest at the center
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Most fires on the 30th floor would be accessed by the elevator to the 28th or 29th floor.  But if we had to hoof it, I couldn't see it taking any more than 10min.