If the lift you were in lost control and was going down fast what would the odds be if u jumped up and down? If the lift landed while you were midway in the jump would you escape serious crush injuries ?!
2006-09-01 07:44:37 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
newrider please note i put this in trivia, why bother answering at all if it's beneath you.
2006-09-01 08:00:30 · update #1
some weirdo's gone and put thumbs down on all the answers, so i've just evened it again.
2006-09-01 08:14:19 · update #2
No go. See Mythbusters
2006-09-01 07:45:43 · answer #1 · answered by wizjp 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hahah ^^^^^ in theory that is correct, but unfortunately it does not work in reality. I've not known many to survive a an elevator that dropped from 50 floors up where no safety devices are working.
You have to jump pretty much at the point of impact. but it wont make a difference if the volicty of the fallin lift is too big.
2006-09-01 07:54:21 · answer #2 · answered by Looney 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The lift would be falling a lot faster than you can jump-up, so even if you could time your jump such that your feet left the floor the instant before the lift touched the bottom of the lift shaft, you would still end-up crashing into it again.
2006-09-01 07:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by Martin G 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No you would be fired into the ceiling at the terminal velocity just like if you were stood still and killed, its called momentum. A less lethal demonstration would be riding the bus and not holding anything, you move forwards when the bus brakes.
2006-09-01 08:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by graeme b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not... this is just a theory... if the lift is plunging at breakneck speed, gravity won't let you jump up and down... and as the lift drops, so do you. Result: injuries, death.
why would you wanna jump up and down in a fast-descending lift?!?
2006-09-01 07:50:22 · answer #5 · answered by poppy-dayz 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Say that by jumping you temporarily reduce your downward velocity by 3 feet per second. Now you are in a lift that is falling at a velocity of 100 feet per second. Therefore, by jumping, you can decrease your velocity to 97 feet per second. It is not going to save you.
By the way, elevators or lifts do not go into free fall. Even if the cable breaks, a column of air is trapped in the shaft below the elevator, and that slows the descent to a rate that is not dangerous.
Read this: http://science.howstuffworks.com/question730.htm
F.U. to the one who voted thumbs down! Can't handle facts, can you? I don't know why I waste time on this stupid Yahoo Answers.
2006-09-01 07:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, you are still falling at 32 ft.per sec. whether the lift car hits bottom before you or not you still have to hit sometime.
2006-09-01 08:16:45 · answer #7 · answered by gifted 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe and you could always introduce a skipping rope to add to the fun before your crushing death. If there's space you could even do double dutch!
2006-09-01 07:47:40 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sadly, no! you would come down with an even bigger bang when the lift stopped.
2006-09-01 07:51:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is noway you would be able to jump up or down because of the force. gravity and all that.
2006-09-01 07:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by pixie007 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No mythbusters proved that a few seasons ago...
2006-09-01 10:05:07 · answer #11 · answered by boilerrat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋