061229-2 World's Fastest Elevator

Taipei 101's building has a series of records. One of them is having double-decker elevators, as well as also being the fastest elevators in the world.

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• Taipei
• 台北
• 101
• 台灣
• World's
• Tallest
• Building
• Fastest
• Elevator
• observatory
• observation
• deck

[Silly692]

just look how more technical and more advanced china is in this world. hehe there intense but u gata give them props , look how magnificant it is.

[88hawaii]

Silly692 - The technical stuff comes from 3rd party contractors. Many of the buildings, transportation, etc, come from foreign contractors that build this stuff.

[Battlefield2Pilot]

lol you're the only guy speaking english. You say 'wow that was fast' and everyone looks at you lol.

[88hawaii]

Nah, those chicks were just checking me out. haha

[rickyguti]

Didn't you feel g-forces (what you feel when you fall) when you were on your way down? what will happen if you where at 10 m/s going down by the 20th floor and someone wants to go down in.... the 10th floor? Does it stop?

[88hawaii]

I don't know. It feels like a regular elevator to me. I think the acceleration remains constant, so the feeling is very minimal.

[rangerover46hse]

Terminal Velocity is the constant speed that a falling object reaches when the downward gravitational force equals the frictional resistance of the medium through which it is falling, usually air, A motorised lift is governed by this law and could travel at any speed if designed to do so. If the lift shaft had accelerated air in the direction of travel then an object could also fall faster

than a standard terminal velocity.

[buskinon]

Watch out for planes.

[XoBleedingHeartoX]

i dont do heights.......at all....

[thecreativewebshow]

i pass out in these types of elevators

[havabighed]

@rangerover46hse the shaft could also be a partial vacuum decreasing its air resistance...

buuut, I dont actually think the elevator is reaching anywhere near its terminal velocity.

[jack90720]

@Silly692 this is china?



[jumme100]

@Silly692 sorry to have to correct you, but taiwan and its capital, taipei, are NOT part of china. taiwan is an independent nation, including its own infrastructure, president, currency, parliament and culture. please remember that! on the contrary, taiwan is fighting a very tough struggle to gain international recognition, opposing a pressure from communist china, going far beyond common comprehension. they are in fact under threat of being invaded militarily by china. taiwan is taiwan!

[innovaciones]

Great this building have the 13th floor.

[0ctober31st]

No, there is still air resistance in the lift, thats why it wasn't untill we got onto the moon that we could test the theory that all objects fall at the same speed if there is no resistance acting upon the objects falling. However both the feather and a human would both fall fastter to the ground.

[growingup15]

so what r u saying is that it is @ 0-g's

[BaconFiend86]

that would be awesome :D :D then you would be SCREWED.

[LeighRollo2006]

Imagine if the bottom and top of the lift had thousands of tiny holes though!