Lifts ...Why no cancel button?
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Ok i have been in an awfull lot of lifts ,staying at different hotels all over the world and i have never found one with a cancel button, how many people waste time hitting the wrong floor button and the lift goes up or down in the wrong direction? Elevator\Lift makers fit a b@@@y cancel button.
That was a low key rant.
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That was a low key rant.
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Edited by fflyingdog on Monday 29th March 22:26
Soft Top said:
Also where are all those lifts you see in the films with the button that stops it half way to the next floor and sets off an alarm?
Still around, someone I know got stuck in one a few weeks back - though six people in a four-person lift is rather asking for trouble.As for sounding an alarm - this one didn't. However there was a Cunning Emergency Plan in place. You mobiled the caretaker.
No prizes for spotting potential flaws:
- they had a working mobile
- the number given didn't answer (on a Sunday afternoon).
Luckily the Fire Brigade did answer.
Dogwatch said:
Soft Top said:
Also where are all those lifts you see in the films with the button that stops it half way to the next floor and sets off an alarm?
Still around, someone I know got stuck in one a few weeks back - though six people in a four-person lift is rather asking for trouble.As for sounding an alarm - this one didn't. However there was a Cunning Emergency Plan in place. You mobiled the caretaker.
No prizes for spotting potential flaws:
- they had a working mobile
- the number given didn't answer (on a Sunday afternoon).
Luckily the Fire Brigade did answer.
Curious clueless geek mode.
When you rise to the top of a tall building in a lift (say 50 floors), relative to the starting point being a fixed point in space, what would be the shape of the line produced by the moving lift? Would you travel in an X and Y plane or just a single plane of movement (obviously Z 'cos you've just risen 50 floors - say 250 metres ...) Would the moved distance be the same where ever you were on the earths surface?
Someone must know and can you explain your workings to a bod with a forgotten grasp on geometry and h'algebra.
Sad indeed, but I like to hear the answers to questions like this.
When you rise to the top of a tall building in a lift (say 50 floors), relative to the starting point being a fixed point in space, what would be the shape of the line produced by the moving lift? Would you travel in an X and Y plane or just a single plane of movement (obviously Z 'cos you've just risen 50 floors - say 250 metres ...) Would the moved distance be the same where ever you were on the earths surface?
Someone must know and can you explain your workings to a bod with a forgotten grasp on geometry and h'algebra.
Sad indeed, but I like to hear the answers to questions like this.
Famous Graham said:
If it's a Schindler's Lift, then it's a one-way ticket.
/coat
Come on, I couldn't have been the only person to notice that!
I was in one of those and took a picture of the name with my phone camera and mailed it to a Germanophile friend, she laughed her head off instantly! /coat
Come on, I couldn't have been the only person to notice that!
drivin_me_nuts said:
Curious clueless geek mode.
When you rise to the top of a tall building in a lift (say 50 floors), relative to the starting point being a fixed point in space, what would be the shape of the line produced by the moving lift? Would you travel in an X and Y plane or just a single plane of movement (obviously Z 'cos you've just risen 50 floors - say 250 metres ...) Would the moved distance be the same where ever you were on the earths surface?
Someone must know and can you explain your workings to a bod with a forgotten grasp on geometry and h'algebra.
Sad indeed, but I like to hear the answers to questions like this.
Can't help with the answer but am wondering if you are stuck in a lift at the moment and are looking to pass the time..When you rise to the top of a tall building in a lift (say 50 floors), relative to the starting point being a fixed point in space, what would be the shape of the line produced by the moving lift? Would you travel in an X and Y plane or just a single plane of movement (obviously Z 'cos you've just risen 50 floors - say 250 metres ...) Would the moved distance be the same where ever you were on the earths surface?
Someone must know and can you explain your workings to a bod with a forgotten grasp on geometry and h'algebra.
Sad indeed, but I like to hear the answers to questions like this.
(no - the walls aren't closing in)
tig6 said:
drivin_me_nuts said:
Curious clueless geek mode.
When you rise to the top of a tall building in a lift (say 50 floors), relative to the starting point being a fixed point in space, what would be the shape of the line produced by the moving lift? Would you travel in an X and Y plane or just a single plane of movement (obviously Z 'cos you've just risen 50 floors - say 250 metres ...) Would the moved distance be the same where ever you were on the earths surface?
Someone must know and can you explain your workings to a bod with a forgotten grasp on geometry and h'algebra.
Sad indeed, but I like to hear the answers to questions like this.
Can't help with the answer but am wondering if you are stuck in a lift at the moment and are looking to pass the time..When you rise to the top of a tall building in a lift (say 50 floors), relative to the starting point being a fixed point in space, what would be the shape of the line produced by the moving lift? Would you travel in an X and Y plane or just a single plane of movement (obviously Z 'cos you've just risen 50 floors - say 250 metres ...) Would the moved distance be the same where ever you were on the earths surface?
Someone must know and can you explain your workings to a bod with a forgotten grasp on geometry and h'algebra.
Sad indeed, but I like to hear the answers to questions like this.
(no - the walls aren't closing in)
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