Surviving an elevator accident

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

if you were free falling in an elevator, you would be weightless.

[wacki]

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I'm still jumping until someone comes with a better idea.

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You might have a better chance of surviving if you laid completely flat on your back. Stand up ---> body turns into whip ---> bodies kenetic energy gets concentrated into slamming the head against the floor.

[EliteNinja]

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I'm still jumping until someone comes with a better idea.

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BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

This post is so funny.
Yah, gravity will pwn you even if you jump at the last second.

Say you had super-strength jumping ability. If you jumped really hard, you'd hit the ceiling of the elevator so hard you would die.

[IggyWH]

The best way is to curl into a tight ball.















...and kiss your ass goodbye.

[A_C_Slater]

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Yeah, this might work, if you could jump fast enough to equal the speed of the elevator falling down, which you can't. If you could, it would mean that you are roughly able to jump to a 10 story height or whatever height corresponds to the elevator's terminal velocity.

Even if you were that strong, the upward acceleration of that kind of jump is about equal to the downward acceleration of the crash. Regardless of your lower-body strength, your ankles are toast, and probably the rest of you too.

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So.... like... does that mean Spiderman could do it?

[jstnrgrs]

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Say you had super-strength jumping ability. If you jumped really hard, you'd hit the ceiling of the elevator so hard you would die.

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IF the elevator were perfectly rigid (would not crush like a soda can), AND you timed your jump perfectly, AND you jumped with just the right amount of force (neither to much nor to little), you could avoid hitting you head, because while you are in the air, the elevator (including to roof of the elevator) would be accelerated upward by the ground.

A prefectly rigid elevator would likely bounce back to close to the hight it origionally fell from, maybe you could step off at the floor you dtarted at and take the stairs down. Of course if you have the ability to execute such a jump, then I'd say there's a good chance you will be able to survive the crash anyway.

[jstnrgrs]

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I'm not sure if you would move the elevator faster to you(but not you slower relative to the ground) or not at all.

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Actually you could slow yourself relative to the ground. When you push down on the floor of the elevator, it will speed up, and you will slow down. The center of mass of the person elevator system will continue to accelerate.

[Jamper]

Alternately, you could make the fastest wink-wink nudge-nudge of your soon-to-be lost life & jump the biggest girl you see in the elevator...

Not only do you get a last hurrah, but also a cushion to break the fall. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[wacki]

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IF the elevator were perfectly rigid (would not crush like a soda can), AND you timed your jump perfectly, AND you jumped with just the right amount of force (neither to much nor to little), you could avoid hitting you head, because while you are in the air, the elevator (including to roof of the elevator) would be accelerated upward by the ground.

A prefectly rigid elevator would likely bounce back to close to the hight it origionally fell from, maybe you could step off at the floor you dtarted at and take the stairs down. Of course if you have the ability to execute such a jump, then I'd say there's a good chance you will be able to survive the crash anyway.

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In case you didn't know, heavy objects fall at a very fast rate and the average human can only jump... well, not that high and nowhere near that fast.

[jdl22]

How is weight relevant?