Re: Idea for Twin Towers rescue?

huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> D.F. Manno <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>  huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> > D.F. Manno <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > >  huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > > 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.
>> No, I don't. What are you picturing?
> 
> Have you never seen the escape chutes built like this? It looks like a
> big lycra scarf, hanging from the building, maybe a foot in diameter.
> At the top is a hoop. You jump into that hoop, and the thing stretches
> as you go down, so it looks like the thing is a s****, and you're
> being digested. The process of stretching, as well as the friction on
> the thing, slows you down. 
> 

What happens if the next guy jumps in while you are still in it? 
 

 

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