if you jumped when a falling elevator hit the ground would you survive?
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I have a book (Why Girls Can't Throw) and it answers this and many other questions.\n\nYou would die is the short answer but you might as well try!\n\nTerminal velocity is (If I remember rightly) about 90 mph and the most you could hope to jump at is 5 mph thus you wuld still hit at 85 mph.  As anything over about 30 mph is usually fatal, you would be toast.\n\nSorry
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Bingo!!! You got it...air resistance.  If you dropped them in a total vacuum, they would both fall at the same rate.
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Yes, you are harmed. You're not falling 10 feet from the door that you just 'jumped' out of. You've been falling since you left the cliff. The only difference is that when you die, it won't be among the ruins of a demolished house.\n\nBTW, you can't jump from the house in the first place. The house is falling and you are falling with it. Jumping requires standing. You and the house are in free-fall. You may be able to guide yourself along the walls using your hands, much like the astronauts do when in a zero-g environment. It's more likely though that you'll be screaming and soiling yourself.
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Surviving an experience that almost killed you.  You were "near death".
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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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The water tension would kill you.  You cannot break the water tension fast enough to allow you to enter unscathed.  This was tested on Mythbusters.  They even tried to break the water tension ahead of them by dropping a hammer into the water just before impact.  The water ripped the legs off the test dummy.
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This is a cool question.  If you were able to tunnel through the Earth, and fall through, your speed would keep increasing until you reached the graviational center.  At that point, the net gravitational force is zero, because all of the forces cancel.  However, you wouldn't just stop because of your inertia.  You would go right through, but then you would begin to slow down, until you reached the other hole.  Depending on how high you started from the first hole, and lets say you jumped five feet above the hole, you would come to a complete stop five feet above the second hole.  Then you would fall back through and continue that cycle.  (Of course we aren't considering air resistance, which screws everything up! ;0)\n\nGuess how long it would take to make it to the other side of the Earth through that tunnel?  Approximately 42 minutes!  Not a bad way of traveling.\n\nThe other cool thing is, if you were to tunnel from say New York to Berlin, which means the tunnel isn't obviously through the middle of the Earth, it would still take you 42 minutes!
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you will probably fall over.
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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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well a fall could do it.... i burised my knee badly when my bike went out from under me. It hurt but it wasnt too bad.\n\nBut please dont hurt yourself
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u fall down the stairs but if u fell up you'd go up the stairs faster
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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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Dont do it, youll end up collapsing
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Only if it fell on him...
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the train cuz u might still be alive and be dragged with the train but the building as soon as u hit the floor ur a goner
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smart ,huh, dont wanna hurt wen u have a fall???
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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