The thing is if you were floating and moving exactly relatively with the space station you would stay there, but the fact is you would touch something rotating eventually, the air would have to have some sort of circulation, thus impacting a small force. Also any slight change in relative motion, ie the station using booster rockets to move orbit slightly, would make you move relativly to the ship and touch something.
if you are in a glass lift heading towards the ground and you jumped up at the moment of impact would you be alright.
You'd be fine...I often give a little jump when the lift gets to the bottom...in fact you'd be fine without jumping....unless said lift was plummeting at 110mph to the ground...is that what you meant? :lol:
You'd be fine...I often give a little jump when the lift gets to the bottom...in fact you'd be fine without jumping....unless said lift was plummeting at 110mph to the ground...is that what you meant? :lol:
But he said a glass lift! You'd obviously be killed by being impaled by the shards of flying glass when the lift shatters as it smashes into the bottom of the lift shaft!
But he said a glass lift! You'd obviously be killed by being impaled by the shards of flying glass when the lift shatters as it smashes into the bottom of the lift shaft!
He gives no indication of speed...why would the glass shatter if its moving at 10th of a mile per hour?
About the magnetic perpetual motion earlier in the thread... it's no different to expecting a bouncy ball to perpetually bounce. Balls made of rubber rather cleverly make the impact energy send them back in the air, so the process can start all over again. Perhaps a bouncy ball will keep doing this over and over again?
It won't of course, because it gradually loses energy in sound (you can hear it bounce) and friction with the air and ground. If it's very bouncy it will take a long time to stop, but it will stop eventually.
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Watch This :- http://show-links.tv/tv_shows/58865/MythBusters/2/2/
Its quite long
what was the conclusion?
The jumping power of a human being cannot cancel out the falling velocity of the elevator. The best speculative advice from an elevator expert would be to lie on the elevator floor instead of jumping. Adam and Jamie speculated the attendant survived because the tight elevator shaft created an air cushion. This together with spring action from slack elevator cable could have slowed the car to survivable speeds.
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You'd be fine...I often give a little jump when the lift gets to the bottom...in fact you'd be fine without jumping....unless said lift was plummeting at 110mph to the ground...is that what you meant? :lol:
But he said a glass lift! You'd obviously be killed by being impaled by the shards of flying glass when the lift shatters as it smashes into the bottom of the lift shaft!
He gives no indication of speed...why would the glass shatter if its moving at 10th of a mile per hour?
Yeah! Go Mythbusters!
It won't of course, because it gradually loses energy in sound (you can hear it bounce) and friction with the air and ground. If it's very bouncy it will take a long time to stop, but it will stop eventually.