Re: Idea for Twin Towers rescue?

<huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> D.F. Manno <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> > How about ordinary cloth garbage chutes like construction sites use?
>> > Even if somebody comes down all cateywompus and wrong, being on the
>> > ground alive with two broken ankles beats the hell out of being
>> > under a collapsed building.
>> From buildings the height of the WTC? The impact zone on WTC1 was the
>> 94th to 98th floor. Falling 93 floors in a garbage chute is guaranteed
>> not to end well.
>
> I'm not picturing a frictionless garbage chute of uniform density,
y'know.


I remember seeing some sort of chute escape system several years ago where
the people sliding down in it, caused bulges in the chute, slowing their
descent
and it looked like a python swallowing its meal.

Here's another approach that lowers a train of collapsible external
elevators
over the edge of the building.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/98561/escape_rescue_system/

Don