I thought I'd initially misheard on the news headlines, but the BBC reporter has just said it takes just 15 seconds to get from the bottom to the top using the lift in the Burj Dubai building.
Isn't that something like 70mph?!
I believe they use a combination of a cannon and a trampoline.
It was 50s
I'm assuming 15 minutes and a c*ck up by the BBC. Or my ears could be due for a severe syringe...
According to my friend Google, the lift, which apparently is the fastest in the world, takes 22 minutes to reach the top.
Ah. Nurse!
He certainly didn't say 22 minutes. I'm gonna find the BBC clip...
9m/s so somewhere around the 60-70 sec mark.
50 seconds it is. Sounds more like it, although I quite liked the idea of 15...
Fair enough. The 22 min lift must have been the builder's hoist - before they had completed it.
"According to reports it will take only 15 minutes to arrive at the 160th floor, given the lift isn't full."
only 15 minutes? - and you have to change on the way apparently.. no single lift services all floors
[url] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/04/content_12753604.htm [/url]
15 seconds from the top back down to the bottom again though, if someone gives you a leg up over the handrail.
[URL= http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fall+828+metres+ ]13 seconds to fall the 828m height[/URL] assuming you are magically frictionless. So a bit more with drag 😀
50 seconds, I'm surrounded by Idiots will be along in a minute to tell us that he did the stairs in 49.
Around the world, BASE jumpers are rubbing their hands together in eagerness....