Can You SURVIVE An Elevator Fall By Jumping?
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- Find out the best way to survive a 150 meter elevator fall, and at the same time learn about gravitational acceleration and understand Newton’s Laws. Your monthly dose of hypothetical physics scenarios is here, and today we’re dropping Stu, several times, from the top of skyscraper.
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@Julian Galpin it's literally in the video
Stop posting bullshit this will almost never happen the ropes have the most work put into it the percentage would be like 0.0001 and if it really broke the governor would trigger the brakes
Can you survive an elevator fall?
Sure you can........
Carry a kids jumping castle every time you use an elevator.
I am currently falling 35'000 feet from the air.
How tf u supposed to know when to jump
exactly
By sense, don't be stupid
@@tenthclass8085 Get off the internet for the next 20 years 😁
Look at the floor thingy and then if ur at the 4-3th floor jump
Tenth Class lol kid shut the fuck up
Look man, fine I'll take the stairs.
Trust me the elevator takes about 10 minutes the stairs would take at least an hour
@@cyanocelot1400 You're right. I prefer elevators and chances of it falling is super less.
@@ronzz8933 we went on a school trip to burj Khalifa and everyone started screaming and we were cramped together for 10 mind straight that is really long for an elevator ride
@@cyanocelot1400 Hilarious
@@cyanocelot1400 Elevator takes about 10 seconds...
there I fixed it for you
Get to the fricking point man im about to hit the floor in 3 secs
@Demospire So sad he did not reply, we've lost a man !
it’s been 10 months 😳
@@mdodzz unfortunately I'm still here
He lived!! What a madlad
Now Rest in peace
with my luck i’d jump and land right as it hit the bottom to *triple the impact*
my sister and i were in tears at this comment
*splat*
😂
Your legs would break first lol
Oof
Video was too long. I tried watching this in a falling elevator to find out if i could live. Was still watching when the elevator hit the ground. Writing this as a ghost now.
lol
Creative Name what if he was already watching this video when that happened
Creative Name there is no evidence this video is intended for kids
I guess you could say... you’re a ghost writer
😂👍🏾
COULD HAVE JUST SAID NO.
Hunter you have to prove things too you know
Hey, you always need evidence
Plus they need that money
saying no is boring you watching the videos to find stuff out.
Hunter lol this is a science channel, its about explaining the answers thoroughly
27 deaths per year ? Oh you know, with the luck I have...
L J fr that 0.0000015% would be my luck
There are already 27 death this year. Now, you're completely save.
I never get rare things unless they're bad.
Death +1
RNGesus is always on your side
Good or bad
When you have only 6.1 seconds to Google what to do but the video is 11 minutes long
Gochocles s I think he is, he had the secure system
If only newton didn't invent those damm laws
Shart12373 he didnt invent them, he discovered them. If nobody ever “invented” gravity, does that mean it doesnt exist? No. Exactly
Power Burrito98 If only newton didn't invent gravity aswell
Shart12373 lmao
r/whoooosh
@@Harry-xu9vc r/whoosh
OK TH-cam, I'VE WATCHED IT. YOU HAPPY?
yes, they are.
EXACTLY!!!!! It keeps popping up until u watch it.
FUCKIN SAME BRO
I need to learn, reading comments before watching.
no
I’ll save you time time, The answer is No
Why did you spoil it
Thank you good human
Thank you! This video took forever
Yea wtf this video has so much bullshit. Get to the point
Thanks. Wouldn't mind to look at the video if it was 4/5 mins. But 11 it's too much for an answer.
This is why I always bring a bucket of water
Lol
Smart man
bring slime blocks for extra safety
pleumz playz no, just use elytra wings
So smart
So you’re telling me a whole 30% of my body is working with the elevator to kill me
Ur bod kinda sounds like a bitch boo
Just when you thought your body was on your team!!!
I knew it, everything hates me-
**crashes to ground in falling elevator**
XD
top 10 anime greatest betrayals of all time.
The answer is "No. You can not survive an elevator fall by jumping."
But the point is to teach you some science *why* it won't save you. The debunk is just an excuse for education. And it does teach you three ways that might actually save your life in that event.
To any headline in the paper (and by expansion, every youtube video) where the sentence ends in a questionmark, the answer usually is : No
first of all elevator wont just fall
That’s not nearly as fun
Thank u 😂 i bored of the video
“Elevators causing only 27 deaths per year “
Those 27 people : “are we a joke”
Wait really???? 27!!!!!! A YEAR!!!!!!! Fuck that im not taking a elevator EVER AGAIN
@@themandalorian5061 stairs probably cause more
@@Zickzii yes it’s true, I died 54 times from stairs
@@Bree.baiibee F
@@Bree.baiibee you ok bro?
Instructions unclear, I died
My sincerest condolences
deadinside
The thing is, how would you know when it's time to jump?
Assuming you did the maths before you entered the elevator or whilst you're falling you could theoretically jump at the 'right' time
Planet Boom "So my mass is this much, and the elevator has that mass..... oh right I failed math"
just count to 6 if your in an average skyscrapers elevator.
Yeah I was thinking that
Planet Boom uh ya, actually, i usually calculate my weight and the elevator’s one before entering one
with those odds i think ill just stay home i don't want to take that 0.00000015% chance
Magic Man or just take the stairs
fuck no there is a 0.000000000000000000013% chance of dying from a stair fall.
Arkra Cera how?
maybe when a stair's ramp is broken, n u trip and fall down?
Say that to thoose 27 people that die each year
Only 27 deaths per year
Me: 👁-👁 I didn’t think it was that high
Just imagine being in this situation with a group of strangers and they are panicking and you're just like "guys, lie down on the floor on the elevator, trust me"
Instructions unclear, i hit my head on the top of the elevator by jumping and i died
Your still alive.
My condolences for your death.
Oh no! Hope your feeling better now though! 👌😂
@@BoredCapturer r/whooosh
Double whoosh
This video is way too long. Impossible to find the answer in 6.1 seconds.
lmao
u survived?
Psycho Dude he didn’t answer
I guess not
The answer comes at 9 mins and it says that you won't die anyway since it is secure, soo we've wasted a whole lot of our time in here !
@GOD OF ART May you rest in pieces :D
When I was younger I thought I could fly by picking up my shoes while wearing them and then I wondered why no one else had tried it
GDX Gaming 404 bruh u sure
I also thought that, but with a platform. I still think about it, but then I think you would fall to the side cuz of equilibrium.
@@GaxiDX nothing is impossible
Stu: The odds of your demise is 0.00000015%
My horrendous luck: I like those odds
So basically in a nutshell dying in an elevator is like winning the lottery.
;)
Don't wink at me bitch
Nice lottery roast xD
James Wilkins is this comment on the wrong video??
Is yours? ;) 10:29
James Wilkins wtf when I first saw your original comment it was by someone else and the comment was about vegeta and goku lol
I was falling in an elevator but the video was 11 minutes long so now I'm dead. Thanks.
I’m sorry for your loss
Who else here was expecting some idiot so you could woooosh them
Rhinomite 227 i was expecting the youtube wooosher to be the idiot, its just flat out annoying now. This isnt reddit, reddit doesn’t over use r/wooosh. Stop overusing the wooosh
how tf u actually gonna get signal to view this video in an elevator lol
Feel like you could access the internet in there ghost.
my physics teacher in grade 11 mentioned this but i used to think that if you’re jumping up (i.e staying in the same position in space for a moment) while the elevator is falling down rapidly wouldnt the ceiling of the elevator just smack you back down
Well if the elevator crushes yeah, but the main point was your traveling at the same speed as the elevator in free fall. Minus the force of your jump when the elevator hits the ground and goes from 90mph to 0mph , your body is still traveling 89 mph in the air and would then hit the elevator floor at that speed.
@@suparibhau yeah haha when i was younger i also thought if you jumped up on a moving bus you would land a feet before where you started LOL
Even if jumping did work somehow, most elevators are closed off completely, good luck trying to guess when exactly you're hitting the bottom.
So short answer: you will break your legs but you might live.
thanks.
Broodjekaas ! Needed that
no... that's if you bend your legs not jump.
thank you
@@woofelator well that won't work so well I think from such a long fall
1st of all how would u know when its going to hit the ground
Count. One, Two, Three, Four, Fi..aawhuahtauhgauwighi
No but serious, I do think there is a certain time you're falling depending on the building.
What other options do you have than to count and be a little lucky anyways. Might aswell count and hope for the best :DAnd reduce the impact as much as possible
Kangaroo Kru 6th sense?
You can just keep jumping in the hope that your lucky enough to have timed your jumps correctly :D
+Eslam A no he wants to have a Tv, some popcorn, a sofa and wifi connection for his phone in that kind of situation
Kangaroo Kru you*
10:34 when my relatives ask about my marks in exam.
If I were in that situation I would just put my head down on the elevator floor to make sure I die as fast as possible.
I can’t be the only one yelling “ok get on with it!” The whole time.
I agree, it goes on and on and on...
They have to stretch it over 10 minutes somehow :^)
LOL he repeated the same thing for 5 minutes
It's why I don't watch videos like this. It's a simple question with a straightforward answer. It can be answered in less than a minute, in less time than it's taking to type this comment.
But these videos are for those stupid kids in class that just never get it..
Yep im like FUCK THE SCIENCE AND NEWTONS LAW SHOW ME WHAT TO DO
12 minute video, but a 5 second suggestion at 9:25 to save you time
If you don't want to see how ithey arrived at the conclusion, you can just fucking search it up on Google.
@HerrNilssonTheMonkey lmao top comment
not all heroes wear capes
ashihtaka I´m sorry for your time buddy
ashihtaka thanks mate
You couldn't possibly know when to jump.... simple as that.
Count to 5
Your very stupid... this video is explaining why it wouldn’t work. If you actually thought it would please get seek help.
@@-5249 "your very stupid"
Conesinker _420 I don’t remember calling he grammar police buddy
If u jumped ur head would smash into the sealing
If they didn’t add that last 20 seconds I was prepared to never take an elevator again in life.
I don't fear elevators plummeting to the ground, I fear them suddenly moving, while I'm getting in. Like how it happened for an unfortunate Chinese student, who was entering an elevator, when another student hit the button on a floor above. Poor engineering caused the elevator to move up, before the doors had safely closed. The student was trapped between the elevator floor and ceiling of the hall he was in. Rescue took several minutes, at which point he had already died from circulatory failure.
now that's some truly scary stuff. maybe padded or rubberized stairs would be best.
@@ArtisChronicles
After I wrote that comment, I searched TH-cam for *"China elevator"* and I saw countless results, one with a woman who got decapitated by the same scenario as I described above and I was like... nope. _Hashtag stairs4lyfe!_
Well it was the students fault for not hurrying up inside the elevator lol what a moran
It was in china what do u expect.
Final destination 2
This has a simple answer: modern elevators dont use cables. They use a hydraulic system. If they failed the hydraulics would mean you'd slowly descend until you hit a certain level then stop.
The hydraulics extend up to more than 100 floors?
@@94D33M That's the point...
Modern elevators absolutely do use cables. Hydraulics are limited to low rise applications. But there is a simple answer nonetheless...traction elevators are equipped with speed governors that stop the car when it goes downward above the rated speed by 15-20%.
The person who commented this had absolutely no ideas how lift company worked.
@@travisurban9784 So what about the elevators for the world's tallest building slated to be built in Japan which also go horizontal.. They can't be using cables…;). Just playing devils advocate. I know most high rise elevators do.. but not all…. there are other ways like magnetic the tallest building is slated to use.
Don't worry about it. Elevator accidents are vanishingly rare, and if you're going to get killed by an elevator, it's most likely going to be the doors that kill you. Nah, you should be more worried about digging yourself too deep a hole at the beach, getting stuck in it, and drowning when the sea comes in. I just found out that happens WAY more than I thought it did.
My father was in an elevator accident, dropped 5 stories. Doctor said what saved his life was that he layer flat on the ground. Shattered his heel and fractured his lumbar, but he healed and lived. Laying flat is the best thing you can do.
But he is living miserably, I guess!
Fractured lumbar ain’t the worst thing in the world bro
I die just watching this 12-minute video
@@daisyphillips3451 11:41 xd
Dwaizy Gaming nope
@@daisyphillips3451 "the math" *bitch* stfu
@@daisyphillips3451 I'd like to know what math was involved.
Fuck Texas
Doesn't work in rainbow six siege...
WORKS FOR LORD TECHANKA
You can't even jump in r6s
Amber Zareva Then why single out r6s?
Amber Zareva lol this guy's an idiot. Not u Amber the other one
Striker Gaming and More thx bb 😚
"It has to be frame perfect."
- Speedrunners
don't forget to roll on impact
Okay obviously it’s fatal from one of the tallest buildings in the world. But what about 1-3 story buildings. That’s more what i was looking for
Change the height of the building and run the maths, it’s the same physics
Don't waste your time like I did, just watch 9:25 😂
Thank you
Thanks
Is learning about physics a waste of time?
god bless you
THANKSSS❤️✨🤞🏼
I think for most people the fear of elevators isn't about the number of deaths or how safe they are. It's about control. On stairs and escalators the reason for your death will likely be your fault, not paying attention or doing something stupid. Something you could have avoided by paying attention and being cautious, in an elevator you have no real control and no real way of avoiding it if ever were unlucky enough to be in a situation where it fails and drops outside of simply not getting on the elevator in the first place.
Yes absolutely, I think the same goes for being afraid of an airplane crashing. I'd be frightened because I would not have any type of control in that situation.
"Escalators"
Nigga, ever seem an elevator swallow people up? They are way scarier.
So a elevator is more likely to kill you than weed ?
@Mustafa Khan sadly only half true - if the plate at the end wasn't installed correctly, you could fall through and get crushed by the motor. Obviously super uncommon, but there is CCTV footage somewhere on the internet of this happening to a woman in China.
@Jd Anims He's talking about escalators eating people, not elevators. He worded that poorly. Search "escalator death" and you'll see what he's talking about.
9:25 if you don't want to waste time
Elevators only cause 27 deaths per year
Me: ELEVATORS CAUSE DEATHS????? THIS ISN'T HYPOTHETICAL ANYMORE
And I like how he said "only" 27 deaths per year.
I hated having them repeat everything 50 times. In the beginning, how many more times are you going to say that the elevator cables snapped and im going to jump last second. I get it. Stop milking the video.
gotta get the 10m mark
Ugh ikr
That's why I learn to watch vids at 1.5x speed
Yakup they're using the old three point advertising method. They're telling you what they're going to tell you, they're telling you what they said they would, and then they're repeating what they've told you, after they've said it.
Tell me about it. Noticed most youtubers do this as well and they don't even fill the 10m video with anything interesting, just repeating words and stuff. Those physics are high school level ffs
10:15 Hold up...so what you’re telling me is taking an elevator is safer than taking the stairs? *Skeptical look*
you're more likely to trip on the stairs than to be in an elevator anyway so ya.
Staircases are the scenes of many deaths by tripping and murders. It's incredibly easy to murder someone without witness in a stairwell
Me : *sees video* nah I don’t need it
My brain : just in case....
This video was posted like 2 years ago so I’m really confused why everyone’s commenting just now
Loll ikrr
@Czterdziestysiódmy
it depends on how much people search for relatable things
for an example, when juice wrld died, my recommendations start showing me a lot of his old songs even though i didn't search for them
✨ a l g o r i t h m ✨
Elevator: *omae wa mou shindeiru*
Me : *NANI!?*
MONKAS
Lmao 😂
Khin&Undone lol
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
I'm your 400th like
so in conclusion, take the stairs
He literally said by statistics its safer to take the elevator
Aaron Rafferty how?
10:12
Well, if you want to slightly increase your chances of dying, yes. Although taking the stairs in general is healthier, so there's that too.
Stairs are not safe.
Who else is watching this while the elevators falling
just stand on top of your stuff and you'll live... your phone will crack and not your back. ;)
@@anim8dideas849 wait, so you literally could stand on anything?
Is anybody watching this while being in a free fall in an eleva
Relatable
no one: a grammarian in a free falling lift: it's not an eleva, it's an elevat
@@abdulrahmanzuhaib5885 r/motherfuckingwooooooooooosh
@@abdulrahmanzuhaib5885 r/woosh he meant it to be like he didnt get to finish his post cuz he died.... Idiot
xXLone_Paratrooper_69Xx even the grammarian couldn't finish it because he died😅
I’m using the stairs from now on
Edit: actually I’m not going in any multiple story building
I would say that some of those 27 are not from a falling elevator. and those who are can be really bad maintenance. th-cam.com/video/_I6TjPhnC8g/w-d-xo.html I can't say that those 27 is only counting a falling elevator. men, as you can see death due to an elevator, can be a lot of different things.
AnTi SepTiCEye facts & me either
a therapist told me using stairs could be as dangerous, when he asked me why i'm avoiding elevators.
malpractice from his side?
*”Son, the elevator is falling! We’re gonna die!”*
*”No, Mom. I got this. Well, gravity will be exerting a force of 9.81 newtons per kilogram which converts to an acceleration of 9.81 meters per second, every second. When you take into accou- MOM?! MOM! NOOOOOOO I WAS EXPLAINI- *dead**
You spent 12 minutes to tell us we’re going to die. Thank you.
That would be a funny way to die
Thanks you, he talks so much 😂
You mean 9.81m/s²
Only takes 6 secs right ? ..
Dumb Ways to Die
You repeated the same thing constantly, to save others time, the answer is no.
With my luck ...0.00000015% is a relatively high possibility
Can you drag a 5 minute video to over 10 minutes? Debunked
lmao I know right, he repeated his point atleast 15 times
it was still entertaining to watch
Seriously, we know he needs that ad revenue but it drags on way too long..
Zeke Donovan there aren't even ads on the video
This Was On 666 Likes!! Thankfully I Changed It To 667 So The Illuminati Won’t Kill You!!
In Soviet Russia you don't jump in the elevator, the elevator jumps in you
ChaosFlower
wtf does that have to do with anything?!
England is my City
Get high
Towelie howmthe fuck that could even happen?!?
Towelie | In the Philippines, the elevator doesn't move you,
.
.
you move the elevator.
Ignore the fact elevators have breaks, cushions and many safety devices
Indeed worse this attempt to jump would actually hinder what is arguably the safety system of last resort. If you ever get a chance to see a glass elevator shaft take a look down into the elevator pit from the ground floor. You will see a set of dampers down there, they typically look like a set of hydraulic pistons these form a fluid damper. They are filled with a very viscous fluid the piston is forced to move through when the elevator hits them causing a lot of drag dissipating the energy rapidly but over a distance thus spreading the impact out over time. They serve the same function as the crumple zones engineered into a vehicle to dissipate the energy in a crash though even more reliably as unlike a car designer all the parameters of the worst-case impact are known for an elevator, unlike a car where variables like the engine, the slope of the road and the fact the object you collide with can be made of literally any material on the planet create uncertainty. The fluid dampers in an elevator will keep you alive, granted it's unlikely to be comfortable and you may suffer injuries at that point as it is designed as a last resort to save human life not provide a comfortable ride but it will do it's job.
Some low rise buildings do use spring dampers more like an oversized version of the suspension system on a car but fluid dampers are more effective especially when the potential collision energy is higher so they are the most common especially on taller shafts.
First thing, elevators can't fall. It is imposible. First you have brakes which activate if elevator moves even a tiny bit faster than it should. But If brakes go bad in 1 in 100000000 chances, you have oil buffers (those are like giant shock absorbers) on which will elevator land. Those buffers will reduce impact on ground for about 70%. So, no leg breaking. 😂
And i would know all of that becouse I am installer of elevators.
We all also know this because he said in the video :/
@@jonathanyip1969 This topic shouldn't even be created. Because of people like "Debunked" you get writing "Not for drink" on shampoos. 😂
@@jovanbudac5379 Some people don't realize how safe elevators are, so videos like these are made. People aren't going to watch a video called "Elevators are safe" because that goes against what they think, so they watch this, and then hopefully learn that there's nothing to be afraid of. Humans are prone to misinformation, I'm sure there's a few myths you believe that are completely false just like everyone else.
@@moosey7165 Well. Can't say you are wrong. But still 50% of people will never even watch this video but from the title or thumbnail will immediately jump to conclusion that elevetors are something to stay away from. You have to draw them everything. That's the problem.
These people would rather die than watch a 12 minute vid
Luckily this video is 11:41 minutes XD
GrammerPolice 9
I love long videos
I always thought of TH-cam as a better version of TV so longer videos are like a proper show
AVeryFestiveMedic I love YT vids that drag out their point just to get that 10 minute mark.
bat-a -rang Good thIng this video is almost 12 minutes
Here's the anwer: the cables are very strong, but if that fails, there are magnets that hold the elevator in place when the cables brake, if that fails there is a shock absorbent thing at the very bottom of the level of the elevator. Just saying all of this in its simplest form, you guys are welcome.
Edit: Wow, 43 likes? I thought this comment was going to get lost in the comment section, thanks guys!
and to answer the question in the title, jumping wouldn’t help, bending your legs would just snap them apart when you crash if not for the shock absorber under the shaft, and laying on the floor with your arms and legs spread would help most by spreading the energy across your body
Elevator Always have 1 or 2 Governor Rope that are attached on commonly on Car and on the Counter Weight that automatically stop and holds the car or counter weight from free fall (snapped ropes) or when it exceeds the maximum speed as per the unit designed. It consider also a major safety component that will stop the elevator when their was a failure on the brake or snapped ropes (that are Very rare) due to most of the high rise elevator has 5-10 ropes, and just one of those ropes can support the entire Elevator unit. Also their will be additional safety buffers in the pit that will absorb the impact in case you hit the lowest floor.
People are afraid of the Elevator because movies make them scary. But Elevator is much more safe than the staircase.
The real question is:
How does the person even know when to jump while in an elevator? There's no windows or any way of knowing its about to hit the floor
the numbers that count the floor level?
@@blackgfazo5397 cuz they would be working accurately at that point haha
Using instinct 😂
Just stay in the air by holding on the railings and pushing your self up.
@@oath2502 You would still reach the same speed as the elevator, wouldn't you? You'd still be crushed.
I'm happy I stumbled upon a video answering a question I've thought about for probably too long throughout my life.
You have a better chance of being struck by lightening and winning the lottery the same day then free falling in a traction elevator. I’m an elevator mechanic
I would rather die than do this math.
uhh what? that math was kindergarten level...
there wasn't even any math involved here i don't know how this was hard to understand
Good thing he did it for you huh
LMFAOOO 😂😂😂
Yes there was... did you watch the video?
Instead of complaining about how long it is, think about how much effort the creators of the video put into it. They explained everything that you generally needed to know.
The Pynkachu it matters how much effort they put into it, true. but they still got a few things wrong. One example is that they failed to explain all of the other things in place to stop you from falling it's not just one cable suspending you in the air.
Breenan Mcsherry They did, if you watched the whole video.
he's repeating himself, and it's explained so that a 8 year old would understand. ergo only for stupid people
It's just not my cup of tea; the information density is just so frustratingly low. Like someone's just trying to reach a word limit for their essay, or in this case, 10+ mins so they could increase monetisation. It's full of fluff (just as one example, 4:26-4:40 is so unnecessary).
Minutephysics could fit all of what they said into about 6 minutes, tops.
Ryna Lau i was just about to say that
Saved this on watch later 3 years ago and just decided to watch it today. I am satisfied.
Same with me, what a coincidence.
I don't need to watch this video to tell you what would happen.
You don't know the rise of the building.
You don't know the rise of the elevator shaft, or spacing between floors, if there are any variations.
You don't know the rated contract speed for the elevator, and probably less likely to know how to convert that ft/min into mph.
You also don't know the pit depth or size of the buffers.
Literally impossible to time a jump, or something of that sort. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO
The good news is however, elevators are the safest mode of public transportation in the world.
Depending on the specifications on the elevator construction, the elevator is usually suspended by 4 to 6 1/2 to 5/8th thick Independent core wire rope made from imoroved plow steel. One wire rope is enough to support the elevator and counterweight by itself. 6 is the standard number of hoisting cables. There is also another cable, that does not suspend the elevator. It is attached to a speed regulating governor that will trip and activate the safety underneath the elevator if the elevator goes 125% over contract speed. Wedging it against the rails stopping the elevator from a free fall. All elevators are designed to engage in safety in a free fall from the 2nd landing of the building.
In the event the safety fails or does not activate, there are oil buffers in the pit designed to slow the elevator to a stop within 1g of force at 125% contract speed, and designed to withstand the weight of the elevator and it's full rated load.
TLDR elevators are much safer than you know. All information provided is from myself, elevator constructor in NYC.
Escalators are what you need to be afraid of, they will tear you up!
Thanks for the info you’re very knowledgeable.
Iuec 🤙
Me and 12 friends fell in an elevator once because we exceeded the weight limit. We only fell 3 floors and the shock absorbers saved our asses :)
Must of been some scary shit
were you having a party in elevetor or wtf?
Lol "me and 12 friends" what were you all thinking
Would never get in another elevator if that happened to me.
Did you die?
7:05 Forget about the elevator what about those broken ankles?
LMAOOOOO
Ahahaha
What if we just use the stairs ?
Elevator cables are actually extremely strong, and the chanced of them breaking are very slim. Plus there are breaks, which activate if the cables were to fail. Ypu are actually about as safe in an elevator as you are anywhere else in the building.
Owen Cunningham yea he said that in the video yeh mongolid
Michael Morales lol you only said that cuz you saw mongoloid in another comment
CJ Boncosky 😆
@@jewishnazi6400 telling someone to kill themselves is rude >:C
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I was in an elevator and then the cables broke. I didn't know what to do so I watched this video. It didn't work.....
Holy shit .. u safe nigga ? 🙄
vincenzo van den broek nederlands?
Mr. Spider jup
HOW TO EVERYTHING lol yes😂
EтernιтyXαиχ 割 lol😂😂
I could survive the fall
Not sure bout the landing tho
I'm pretty sure surviving the fall implies surviving the landing? :x
Most people that die in elevators enter the door without the elevator car actually being there, and fall to their deaths. The other one is the door closing on part of your body and the car moving while you're stuck in the door. So pay attention to the door and the car while you're entering/exiting.
Nice video and all,
but there's still a roof over your head that will crush you on impact ._.
MLG Melon ikr
It wont necessarily collapse
The cable snapped, the whole building isn’t collapsing in this hypothetical situation
he was talking about the elevator roof you fucking mongoloid.
why is everybody fighting
You said the same thing at least 30 times or more
bama pride ikr!!!
Roll tide
bama pride ikr
bama pride-- Hence the duration of the video 11:41
to make more time... you know, the 10 minutes stuff.
11 minutes, and 40 seconds in 1 word: nope
thanks also how would this guy know? did he try that in an elevator?
@@roystonfernandes9445 good question, noone who has ever done it lived so i guess thats a good reason? but then again we dont know if they actually tried it so idek
@@roystonfernandes9445 pysics maybe?. U know...the thing explained in this video.
@@roystonfernandes9445 now, how would we know 🤔
One thing to say about those 27 yearly deaths from elevator accidents. The great bulk of those are elevator mechanics. Avarage passenger is even safer.
Right, also I'm sure the majority of those cases are not in / with modern elevators. Around the world there are elevators in use which are in horrible shape which would never ever be allowed to be in use in a "modern" country.
Who the hell actually thinks that jumping in an elevator would help at all? Is this honestly a common misconception?
Mudbox yes it is surprisingly. I used to think the same thing when I was young
I always heard it as a kid, but never really thought about it 😂
Becuse as kids they don't know that you will still have the same inertia as falling and when you jump you're still technically falling.
It will help a small bit, as some of the force will be absorbed by the elevator moving more downwards, but you have to understand that the elevator shaft is heavier than you. Try laying down and pushing on a heavy object. (This simulates freefall, as gravity isn't affecting any of horizontal axis.) you can see how you push off of the heavy object, not push the object away.
I was in the elevator while it was falling, but the video was so long that I am a ghost writing this now
Cetrix lol😂
sorry to say wouldn't have helped anyway
yeah i seen a video that is lot shorter than this.
this video purposely extend the video
because monetization
I would've been happy with just a plain old simple No.
Just aim for the trees. That's what the video about falling out of an airplane said.
Unfortunetely most elevators don't have trees :(
@@Ripa-Moramee That is the downside to that plan.
So.. you have the same chance of dying in an elevetor and getting an AWP Dragon Lore in csgo?
.infernofx You should test that theory by going up and down an elevator while opening 1 crate every time till you get a Dragon Lore.
that's actually a good idea
if I have a dragon lore does this mean I'm less likely to die in an elevator? xD
not if you bought it
LMAO
bruh just jump and land in the spiderman position
Lmfao
Alex The Cat; but he doesnt feel soo good :(
Ikr
Goodbye ankles, knees, fingers and wrists.
*lands* *hEy GuYs*
8:36 is the answerjust wait a couple seconds
thanks legend
Why are all the comments days old when the video came out 2 years ago
Pablo Rosas you answered your own question with your own comment.
TH-cam Algorithms
Elevators death prevention lobby.
Pablo Rosas TH-cam spams the same content every year lol you just haven’t noticed
even if you decided to jump, how would you know when to jump????
TheImortal GG when you fall down there are scanners that would beep everytime you pass a floor so taking that into consideration you just need to time when the second to last floor would beep
what if ur in a glass lift
GamJam Prop er meh gawd that's amazing
GamJam Prop Technically then elevator cant fall. So this isn’t relevant.
SpringPanic4317 you're fucked
I'm not much of a fan of learning when it comes to school, but I love watching things like this. Everybody who is complaining about you teaching us what's going on are just impatient or they don't like learning.
learning about simple physics
or they find it boring as fuck and they just want to find out how to survive an elevator crash
8 years old me explaining how I can servive a plan crash by jumping just before it falls.
‘Only 27 deaths per year.’
around 150 thousand people die per day. 27 a year is super impressive
dylan agreed, but I mean, still xD
I liked this channel before. Now this is just a 3 mins video streched to 11mins.
We're sorry you feel this is too long, we aimed to cover as much of the physics involved with whole situation without making it too complicated to follow. The original script was much shorter, but it didn't cover the physics in detail and rather glossed over them.
Debunked I get that. You don't even start the physics (which was the interesting part of the video anyway) till about 3 mins in.
We aim to continually improve our content, so hopefully you'll think our next video is a bit puncher.
I did enjoy the video, it was very in depth. However you didn't go over the drag calculation that came to the 30% lighter figure in the video, how did you get that?
Debunked it was fine actually.
How to survive from elevator fall..
Nah..just use stairs
XD
what abt the older peoples?
@@90shorrortv7 Ig those old people are dead then.
I live on the 12th floor
Stairs accidents are way more common than elevators accidents
But... elevators do have emergency breaks :DD
2:08
When I'm falling down an elevator I like to do a handstand so that when it hits the bottom it literally pushed my own head through my own ass
Greyson Prince lol
My sense of humour is failing me each day 😔