I can't get my head around this - you're trappe din a plummeting lift and if you jumped up just before it crashed, then would the lift shaft have plummeted and crashed at a billion miles per hour but you would have technically only jumped and landed a few inches? My gorgeous fluffy brain cannot work this one out!
2006-12-03 04:14:37 · 27 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
A nice idea but you would be moving too quickly and you would not be able to time it right.
2006-12-03 04:16:28 · answer #1 · answered by tinkerbell34 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would not survive
to survive the first impact you would have to jump up the same speed as the lift is travelling down (a billion miles per hour) which is impossible
even if this was possible the roof of the lift would crush you
hope your gorgeous fluffy brain can work this one out now
2006-12-03 04:22:01 · answer #2 · answered by benji 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very interesting question...
But... what im thinking... since a lift is dropping, u will be flung into the top of the lift immediately... and when it crash, the force of the top of the lift will simply slam u to the floor of the lift!! but somehow, my answer only applys if the lift plummeting all of a sudden very suddenly...
But my answer may apply to ur question as well... when u jump, the lift is going down, and u are going up... this means u will hit the top of the lift... well... me not sure of the exact answers...... =X
2006-12-03 04:19:54 · answer #3 · answered by kelvin low 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Well - if you were super human and you could jump over 100 miles an hour to counter balance the accelerated force of gravity. It's like jumping the opposite way a car is traveling - will you just land on the ground, safely - not if it's going fast -
2006-12-03 04:18:01 · answer #4 · answered by Dustin S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you would not avoid the crash. Here is another way of looking at the same idea. If you jumped off a tall building while holding a severed tree branch in your hands, would you be able the pull yourself up, using the tree branch, just before you hit ground? In both cases you are free-falling and so is the lift or branch.
2006-12-03 04:19:20 · answer #5 · answered by MisterRE 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try this the next time you are in a lift heading downwards.
Be prepared to jump as the lift doors close. Then as the lift begins to move jump in the air as high as you can. Your head may touch the roof of the lift car.
2006-12-07 00:35:52 · answer #6 · answered by The Alchemist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, you'd still be plenty dead. You might manage to accelerate upwards at the rate of, say 15 m/s. . . if your elevator is falling at a good 40 m/s or so, you still hit the ground wearing a steel tutu at almost 40 m/s simply because as soon as you leave the floor of the lift you are no longer accelerating upwards, gravity is acting on you and the time involved is so short that you don't have time to cause any meaningful deceleration in your downward velocity.
Edit: wow, someone actually did a show on this? You mean to tell me there were enough people that actually thought this would work that it required television airtime to disprove? Excuse me, I am going to go cry myself to sleep now over the state of education.
2006-12-03 04:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by DJL2 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you were jumping up and the lift was falling at 80 miles an hour you would be falling something still at 70 mph cos your jump up spped would not be greater than the falling speed and also you are trapped in a box.
2006-12-03 04:16:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before jumping, you're traveling at the same speed as the elevator around you. When you jump, you're changing your speed relative to the elevator, but not to the rest of the world around it. You will still hit the bottom of the elevator car at the speed the elevator was falling, give or take a tiny bit because of your jump.
2006-12-03 04:20:19 · answer #9 · answered by watsonc64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 15:48:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, the lift will probably collapse once it reaches the ground. The top of the lift will smash down on you.
2006-12-03 04:18:09 · answer #11 · answered by chanel217 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋