If you are in an elevetor and it falls will you live by jumping up right before impact?
493767
if it falls only 10 feet you have a good chance if a long way to fall your stuffed
1013783
Absolutely. Surround yourself with people that care and they are sure to catch you every time. Besides......once you learn from your mistakes its amazing to see how one can "bounce" back into good graces. So even then, hitting the ground only stings for a second.....then you are off and running and soaring higher than ever.
1149881
No. You'd fall through it. It's just water molecules. It sounds cool though!
43862
No, unless you fall from a considerable height (such as out of an open 12th story window) or something like that in your sleep.
1150073
That would sort of depend on what you land on, now wouldn't it? If you have a parachute you could jump from the top of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and survive. I think the farthest a human has fallen accidentally and lived is under fifty feet, unless they just happened to fall into something soft like a snow drift.
396249
It would depend, is there a chance the fire could be put out, then I would be able to get out?\n\nI guess I would wait until the fire was close, and I knew for a fact I would be burning, then jump.  There would really be no point in waiting for a painful death.
609411
Just stay on your feet and you will be fine. You do use your feet and not your elbow in track. Right?
435293
Not really, though it depends on the final velocity of the elevator.\n\nThe average person can jump approximately 24 inches vertically in 1 second. That jumping velocity translates to about 1.4 mph. Even if you try to jump at the precise moment of impact, you'll only shave off 1.4 mph from whatever your velocity is at the time of impact.\n\nIf the elevator drops for 1 second (assuming no friction), then you're travelling at 32 feet per second (about 22 mph). 2 seconds equals 44 mph, 3 seconds equals 88 mph. Then at about 3.4 seconds, you've reached terminal velocity (the speed where air resistance overcomes gravitational acceleration), about 100-120 mph.\n\nSubtract 1.4 mph from any of those numbers and I'm sure you'll see that the effect would be negligable, unless of course, the the elevator is only 1 floor up, or there is some braking action occurring to slow the car on the way down. But anywhere above about 20 mph, and that 1.4 mph has almost no effect.
411286
It doesn't matter...you require the same kinetic energy to climb one or two at a time....and you gain the same potential energy just by increasing your height.\n\nBy swinging your arms you would not use less energy because you would be required to USE energy to maintain the motion....thus cancelling out the energy gained by momentum.
454933
Yes, you will land in the same spot, but please be careful when you try that, don't slip on the floor after jumped in the air on a fast moving train. :-)
867852
depends where if falls.
475388
People have lived from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge --- however the majority have died trying. According to Wikipedia the GGB is 220 feet above the water. From this height you will either die from the fall or compress your spine when you land. Either way, its not a good thing.
399417
u fall down the stairs but if u fell up you'd go up the stairs faster
1064188
You're in a 750,000lb piece of metal that flys through the air.  Even if it is not that important, wouldnt you want to take every precaution to prevent any slight bit of chance of crashing?
971235
Depends on your momentum when you do so.\n\nIf you're utterly still and blow out air in space, you will move backwards.\n\nWell, your frozen corpse will...
113385
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.
676022
you're kind of.. going to die. but not really. just watch out for crowd surfers, moshing, stuff like that. and don't freak out when there are a bunch of people pressed up aganist you. just have fun and such.