Movie Day!! :D

MythBusters video today about the myth that if one jumps right before your elevator plummets to its doom at the bottom of the shaft, they would live. Unfortunately it was busted and the dummy in the experiment gave a definitive splatter at the end of his ride. Using the equation V^2 = 2a * change in X (since the dummy's initial velocity is 0). The drop from the elevator is 92ft and gravity is an acceleration of 32ft/s^2, which would make the drop velocity 76.7ft/s. Unfortunately the average jump of a person is 8ft/s (using the same equation with a 1ft high jump), while this will slow your fall, it's only to a still bone crushing 68.7ft/s. The myth was busted.