Can You SURVIVE An Elevator Fall By Jumping?  

Debunked first to like and comment lol 🦶

@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.

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

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

@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

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.

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

😂👍🏾

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

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

Gochocles s I think he is, he had the secure system

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

yes, they are.

EXACTLY!!!!! It keeps popping up until u watch it.

FUCKIN SAME BRO

I need to learn, reading comments before watching.

no

my sister and i were in tears at this comment

*splat*

😂

Your legs would break first lol

Oof

Lol

Smart man

bring slime blocks for extra safety

pleumz playz no, just use elytra wings

So smart

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

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

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?

My sincerest condolences

deadinside

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.

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

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

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

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

don't forget to roll on impact

Your still alive.

My condolences for your death.

Oh no! Hope your feeling better now though! 👌😂

@@BoredCapturer r/whooosh

Double whoosh

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.

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

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*

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

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

@@daisyphillips3451 11:41 xd

Dwaizy Gaming nope

@@daisyphillips3451 "the math" *bitch* stfu

@@daisyphillips3451 I'd like to know what math was involved.

Fuck Texas

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

Thank you

Thanks

Is learning about physics a waste of time?

god bless you

THANKSSS❤️✨🤞🏼

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?

And I like how he said "only" 27 deaths per year.

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 😚

now that's some truly scary stuff. maybe padded or rubberized stairs would be best.

@@ArtisChronicles After I wrote that comment, I searched RU-vid 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

Change the height of the building and run the maths, it’s the same physics

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.

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.

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

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

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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

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

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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😅

MONKAS

Lmao 😂

Khin&Undone lol

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

I'm your 400th like

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.

around 150 thousand people die per day. 27 a year is super impressive

dylan agreed, but I mean, still xD

5 years ago

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

Luckily this video is 11:41 minutes XD

GrammerPolice 9

I love long videos I always thought of RU-vid 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

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.

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?

But he is living miserably, I guess!

Fractured lumbar ain’t the worst thing in the world bro

I would say that some of those 27 are not from a falling elevator. and those who are can be really bad maintenance. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_I6TjPhnC8g.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?

LMAOOOOO

Ahahaha

2:08

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

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

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.

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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.

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?

Unfortunetely most elevators don't have trees :(

@@Ripa-Moramee That is the downside to that plan.

I'm pretty sure surviving the fall implies surviving the landing? :x

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.

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

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 🤔

thanks legend

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

oh i see. you watch meet arnold ye ? drak1111

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

Maja Berglind what if the stairs broken

Unless those fall too 😂

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.

No you'll hit the floor with same impact as the elevator when you jump but the more force

@@Justplott no this actually works if timing is perfect

Pablo Rosas you answered your own question with your own comment.

RU-vid Algorithms

Elevators death prevention lobby.

Pablo Rosas RU-vid spams the same content every year lol you just haven’t noticed

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

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.

yeah I was actually wondering. that makes more sense

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 have no life.

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Lea e LMAO

Lea e You cannot wait a minute! You would be dead!

Holy shit .. u safe nigga ? 🙄

vincenzo van den broek nederlands?

Mr. Spider jup

HOW TO EVERYTHING lol yes😂

EтernιтyXαиχ 割 lol😂😂

Lmfao

Alex The Cat; but he doesnt feel soo good :(

Ikr

Goodbye ankles, knees, fingers and wrists.

*lands* *hEy GuYs*

Than use your double jump obviously.

ah yes

@@elevator_satellite Yes, it just absorbing the pressure that the lift has pushed down onto it.

@@elevator_satellite he is obviously meme-ing

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.