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Thread ID: 109559	2010-05-13 02:44:00	Fictional Scenario #1	rob_on_guitar (4196)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
884473	2010-05-13 09:16:00	How are you going to know when to jump? Assuming he knows. Red herring.	Renmoo (66)
884474	2010-05-13 09:23:00	Any volunteers for a small test I have planned, 1000 virgins for you if you die in the test	gary67 (56)
884475	2010-05-13 09:53:00	Re: I'd be thinking about sueing the bastard who made the fail-safe system which was supposed to arrest the fall! Probably find that it was made by the same fail-safe people who developed the oil leak device in the States - the battery apparently failed. www.guardian.co.uk	Scouse (83)
884476	2010-05-13 10:30:00	You're in an elevator of a 10 level building. The cables snap and it falls freely to the ground. Just before the moment of impact you try to jump. What happens and what would you do if you were in that position? If I was in that position I think I'd be floating in midair for a moment before I died. I think that goes for anyone in that position as well...	--Wolf-- (128)
884477	2010-05-13 10:34:00	Re: I'd be thinking about sueing the bastard who made the fail-safe system which was supposed to arrest the fall! Probably find that it was made by the same fail-safe people who developed the oil leak device in the States - the battery apparently failed. www.guardian.co.uk "For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail."	Marnie (4574)
884478	2010-05-13 12:35:00	Well, since I have time to think about it beforehand, and it's obvious that I'd die, I'd try to die in the most spectacular fashion. I'd probably do a handstand, and try to snap my neck with the force. :D :banana :lol: Classic!	rob_on_guitar (4196)
884479	2010-05-13 12:59:00	Failsafes in lifts are rather good. For a start, any reasonably new (15 years) cable lift will use six cables. any single cable can support the full weight of the car and people inside. There's also a governor on top of the lift, that mates to a toothed track near the shaft rails, as the lift goes up and down, the governor spins, if it starts going too fast, it spreads out, and forces a brake on on all the shaft rails. Depending on the arrangement of the lift (are there any other lifts in the shaft, etc), the air can have quite a slowing effect. If it's just a single lift shaft, then the gap around the lift will be about 10cm all around. When that car goes flying down, the only real place for that air to go (unless it blows out a set of doors, which have been designed against this) is that gap, so it has to compress a lot. Overall it will slow it down noticeably. There's also a large shock absorber at the bottom of the shaft, but that does bupkis to help a falling lift. It's really only to give the car something to sit on when it's at the bottom of the shaft, so that the cables can be slackened, and replaced if need be. Even just the length it compresses when a lift sits on it normally shows how little it can really do, normally it compresses by about 25-35%. BUT IF all that failed, I'd just enjoy the fall, you're screwed. No amount of jumping will really save your ass.	ubergeek85 (131)
884480	2010-05-14 07:06:00	I think I'd be too busy screaming to count the floors as I went by! LL The old World Trade Centre lifts used to travel at such a rate that a few people used to scream.	mikebartnz (21)
884481	2010-05-14 07:41:00	what if there was a rail on the ceiling.......could you hold on to it and hang ? and just pull ya arms out of there sockets instead of smashing ya legs? :lol::lol: oh well........... :p otherwise id be hoping like heck i was good enough in life to get to heaven i guess???????? :D beetle	beetle (243)
884482	2010-05-14 08:04:00	I would whip out my phone and tell someone to make me a sandwich (answers.yahoo.com)	icow (15313)
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