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- Subject: Re: Elevator mayhem
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:07:08 GMT
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- In article <mcirvin.716585471@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
- >Subject: Re: Elevator mayhem
- >From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- >Date: 15 Sep 92 19:31:11 GMT
-
- >hsieh@math.toronto.edu (Paul Hsieh) writes:
-
- >>Well, I've though about this once (not too seriously) and figure that if your
- >>timing is good enough that you could jump up at the last second before impact
- >>to actually reduce the speed. Then you could end up with method 2) with
- >>lesser impact. :) I don't know if there is any merit to what I've just said
- >>but I'm wondering if there is anything fundamentally flawed with it (besides
- >>the amazing timing that would be required).
-
- >There is a fundamental flaw... Think about what happens when you come
- >back down at the end of your jump. Remember, you've jumped off of a
- >floor that is traveling downward at high speed, and you land on a floor
- >that has stopped moving! All you've done is delay the injury a fraction
- >of a second.
- >--
- >Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
-
- Yes, unless in addition to superhuman timing, you can produce enough
- acceleration to bring you to a "stop" relative to the floor you are going to.
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