Supersonic Elevator
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Topic: Supersonic Elevator
Posted By: WGP guy2
Subject: Supersonic Elevator
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 7:17pm
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"The world's tallest buildings feature elevators that travel 100-miles a minute" http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2010/01/02/worlds-tallest-buildings?slide=1 - http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/wor...ldings?slide=1  |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 7:23pm
| Yeah, I really doubt they go 6000mph. That would be fantastic though. |
Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 7:46pm
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100 miles a minute, 40 miles an hour, same thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai#Current_records ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 10:08pm
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What a ridiculously ugly building.
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 11:34pm
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I doubt it travels at mach 7, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was gold-plated or diamond studded or something, with the way Dubai wastes money. They're driving themselves into bankruptcy spending money like this. They have no concept of sound investment, they just spend money because they can. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 11:45pm
I've seen it. It's pretty awesome. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
carl_the_sniper wrote:Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 11:26am
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I've been up it. The lifts weren't that fast :)
I wonder what G load Mach 7 would produce? It is an awsome building though. KBK |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 11:29am
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Thats pretty nutz. I would never go in it though. Its bad enough that when I go to my moms work I have to walk up 23 floors because their elevator goes so fast it makes me almost puke. ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 11:34am
| I would not want to work in that building especially at the top. I think I was watching a history or discovery channel special on this building saying the design was to brush the wind off so it doesn't cause it to sway like crazy. |
Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 11:46am
Stopping would be fun because it would produce like 1800G. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 11:51am
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 11:56am
| It's missing something....I'm thinking a giant flaming eyeball |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 12:00pm
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Eville, that's pretty sweet. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 12:46pm
Assuming the best case scenario, the elevator would reach its top speed, 2682m/s, exactly halfway up at 414 meters. The acceleration would be 8688 m/s^2 or 886 times the acceleration of gravity. You would be a pile of mush on the floor. If you accelerated that much through the distance of the building and let the elevator shoot out the top, it would go to over 700km altitude. |
Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 5:15pm
| Sounds like a helluva time. |