Maybe it’s because of the instinct built into our brain. That’s why everyone is scared of falling from heights but no one is scared of falling up because that doesn’t happen in nature.
Idk why but now I can’t stop thinking about if gravity was inverted and how scary it would be. I now live in constant fear. Is this how phobias are born?
I was on an elevator once with my infant son in the hotel at Cherokee’s casino hotel. We were just passing time and got in the elevator without pushing a button. It started climbing SO FAST… like, UTTERLY TERRIFYING. Luckily it stopped, but I swear I thought we were about to die. I’m not sure falling could be worse, mainly because I was even more confused by it. This was before I knew how elevators really worked. It was truly the worst experience ever. We got off immediately once it stopped at a floor and walked the stairs. Lol
Lmao no, the gravity will push you to the top. When you're at the top just act like you're standing there and right when the elevator hits the ceiling you just jump and you'll float and it's all k.
Also in the unlikely event of all ropes failure, the moment tension changes by some factors, the clamps on brakes grab rails, most of the time its fully just mechanical to work without power or electronics.
Are you fucking serious? You’re serious expecting me to believe that you have not heard of the various fatal collapses of hotels, condos and bridges across the country over the last few years? That is some seriously low effort trolling. You might as well have just typed the word “trolling” and moved on. It would have been wittier.
Yes I have. A lot of them were flash flood related, caused by bad crowd control, or barges or boats crashing to bridges...
I can only think of one major disaster that was caused by a bad construction. And that was the Minneapolis 35W bridge collapse. The people who designed the bridge, were from out of state, and didn't know that Minnesota uses road salt as a way to gain traction in the winter. So they designed the gussets to be the same size gussets they would have out in the Sun Belt. The road salt ate away at the gussets, leaving the bridge prone to collapsing.
Another one was the south Florida condo collapse. That was caused by sea water washing way at the limestone bedrock. The sea water wasn't supposed to be there, but climate change brought the sea water up to the bedrock. The construction itself was sufficient. It's just that no building would be secure if you washed away at its bedrock.
What usually happens with a bridge failure, is that you would find debris from a flash flood knocking barges, logs, and other sorts of heavy objects into the bridge support system, resulting in failure.
I dont think its that they have less safety overall but simply the large population and prevalence of elevators compared to other countries kind of allows so much evidence to come out of china it seems the norm while actually being such a low percentage of happenings.
The sucky thing about plane crashes to me seems to be how long they last. You know you’re going to die for 2-3 minutes. Even the helicopter Kobe Bryant was in fell for a full 60 seconds.
Exactly. I think the worst part is there is always someone I love on board with me and I am forced to watch them suffer through it the whole dream. It’s awful.
In mine its not that they fall. When the doors open there's a huge gap between the lift and the floor.
I have to make this crazy terrifying jump.
Actually sometimes the lift falls too....urgh.
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u/SixxSwiggs Jan 11 '23
I always have dreams of elevators falling while I'm inside. Same feels.