What would you do?

A. Lean against the wall

B. Sit on the floor

C. Lay down flat on the floor

D. Timing-Jump before elevator reaches bottom

E. Exercise

F. Look quickly for opening in ceiling

G. Throw nearby people to the floor and sit on them

H. Pray for architectural luck

I. Hope for Jesus

J. Lucky to have floating device and use it

K. Other

1. trigger anti gravity belt and hover in mid air, unaffected by the crash

2. shift through the space time continuum to yesterday, when the crash hadn't yet occurred

3. use laser vision to solder faulty brakes on elevator, freezing car in place

4. make rapid offering to Otis, the elevator god and savior of falling objects

5. click heels together three times and chant 'there's no place like home'

6. grow wings and fly upward

7. inflate own body like pufferfish, thereby softening crash

8. stand there confidently on moonboots, knowing thick soles will absorb the shock

9. duct tape self to wall of elevator, creating protective cocoon

10. unfurl umbrella and float gently downward

I saw a movie where this happened. Later, the same guy that saved the people in the elevator ended up on a bus that was rigged with a bomb. If the bus went below a certain SPEED, the bomb would blow up. So, they had to keep it above that SPEED because SPEED meant life, and if they lost their SPEED they would also lose their lives. They worked around the SPEED issues until everyone was off the bus, and then let the bus lose SPEED until it lost enough SPEED that it harmlessly blew up.

I think that movie was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down".

RodeoSchro said:

I saw a movie where this happened. Later, the same guy that saved the people in the elevator ended up on a bus that was rigged with a bomb. If the bus went below a certain SPEED, the bomb would blow up. So, they had to keep it above that SPEED because SPEED meant life, and if they lost their SPEED they would also lose their lives. They worked around the SPEED issues until everyone was off the bus, and then let the bus lose SPEED until it lost enough SPEED that it harmlessly blew up.

I think that movie was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down".

i remember that film. it was with sandra bullock and leonardo dicaprio. but i think it was called "Go Faster!"

that's why you take the stairs

i do not think there is anything you can do that would make any difference.


It is like when lois lane was falling and superman catches her feet from the ground... she should just splat all over him... yeah gravity tends to win.

the idea of jumping is silly. say you have 1 meter vertical. So that will shave off 1/3 of on meter from the fall... what will happen is you would smash into the top of the elevator and then back down onto the ground. The net forces would nearly equal.

but the good news is: gas laws could possibly save you...as the air in the shaft is being compressed it may create enough extra resistance to slow you down enough.

Can you imagine if your life was in this kind of freefall?

One moment you're going up,feeling good and then wheeeeeew.No derailment in sight.The cables(mind) just snaps.