if their was a buliding 12 miles up and you were in an elevator on the top floor and the cord snapped WWUD?
966860
You would splatter all over the floor like a mushy pizza.
1026062
you would probably suffocate from the high altitute b-cuz there isnt much oxygen up there.
252852
no , they tested that on mythbusters and proved it wrong. One person has survived a elevator crashing down 30 stories in a fire, and that person said it was because he had jumped in the elevator. That is where the rumor started.\n\nMythbusters showed that this women actually survoved because the air under the falling elevator acted as a cushion and the snapped cable under it acted as a coil. So to answer your question, NO
1182159
Fast enough to break important parts of your anatomy if you were to fall off.
1160752
The one thing that made the elevator or lift a possibility for comercial use was the invention by Mr. Otis of the mechanical break system that prevents the car from falling even when the cable is cut.  It basically drives a wedge against the wheels and the rails when the car starts to go down faster than it should. \n\nPower outages pose no threat since the car is counter balanced by a heavy counter weight and the motor and gears simply stop in position with no car movement during a power outage.\n\nThe biggest concern is, what happens if a cable snaps?  Mr. Otis toured the country demostrating his brake system by acutually getting in a car, having it raised and then he personally chopped through the rope suspending it.  Some cars will lurch and drop a couple of feet then stop and lurch again and will keep doing this until the car is finally stopped at the bottom of the shaft.  This kind of drop is really scary but no one has died from a falling elevator due to a cable failure as far as I can remember.
605569
You could die if it erupted
900004
A credit card and a car to get to the store. Playing with capacitors like that could kill ya. Better to just stick your finger into an old TV tube.
171592
It would depend on the motion of the elevator, would you care to be more specific?
750206
Jump off a building. Oh wait, that was just my Tamiflu kickin' in & doing the talking for me.
407704
I'd transmitt it via FO cable, in the dirt.
43483
I'd kill myself. If I got stuck in a place like that, it would be all the evidence I'd need to know I had trully become a worthless piece of crap.
952300
I would be absolutely devastated!!!  You are my hero! You are  always here to rescue me whenever I'm in trouble....and there is no one here worthy enough to catch me when I fall!!! :(
490632
*I almost got hit by a tow truck\n*I got stuck upside down on a rollercoaster over water.
586393
Sure have.  I was putting a display in a window of a store and bent over to plug in the cord into the floor socket and rrrriiipppp.  Yes there were people on the walk way but when I turned they looked the other way.  I think they were laughing so hard they couldn't dare look at me.  I had a clerk go buy me another pair of pants.
478997
IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF LARRY THE CABLE GUY\n\nID SHOOT THE TOWELL RIGHT OFF YOUR HEAD
1076208
Does pressing the elevator button over and over make it come to that floor faster???    NO!
215554
Sounds kind of dangerous, I'm not sure. Depending on how old it is and what type of tv it is, it could be an exploded tube or fried wiring!