Just spent a few days on the 43rd floor of a hotel that had these fucking supersonic lifts.

 

Is it possible that going up and down in them several times a day can affect your balance and give you a strange sensation in your head?

 

I keep having weird feelings that I'm falling. It's not unpleasant, and it could just as easily be all the booze and long haul flight, but I've never had it before.

 

Or have I got AIDS?

I'm not even thinly veiling the fact that I've been swanning about like a pretend millionaire either.

My head went when I went up the stratosphere in Vegas. Must of done 60 floors in less than a minute, ears popped the lot

If the sensation is while you're on the 43rd floor it is pobably because you can feel the building movement. The higher buildings have a bloody big weight hung from the top and all the way down through the centre. As the wind blows the building it moves it. /then the counter weight swings and pulls it back to normal.

Int' science brilliant?

A mere 24 floors in first & 22 in the other hotel last week. I nearly puked at the Burj Khalifa though. I stayec classy & held it in though

Micky is right, buildings sway so possibly that could be it. However you may have a form of travel sickness as with the speed of elevator s can reach over 10 metres a second and that's pretty quick for an up and down motion.

Pressure can also be a factor, imagine a plunger going up and down a tube same as an elevator in a shaft

Felt like shit when I took the Mrs up the shard!

Edited December 8, 201411 yr by Smiley

Felt like shit when I took the Mrs up the shard!

Same here, 24 pints the day before at rugby caused that though

Felt like shit when I took the Mrs up the shard!

Hope you washed it after

Micky is right,

Woo hoo!

Woo hoo!

Did a 62 floor tower once and the wind caused havoc with plumb lines, would sway over a metre Also between 12 and 2pm the sun got so hot that the building twisted so we couldn't fix brackets between them times.

If the sensation is while you're on the 43rd floor it is pobably because you can feel the building movement. The higher buildings have a bloody big weight hung from the top and all the way down through the centre. As the wind blows the building it moves it. /then the counter weight swings and pulls it back to normal.

 

Int' science brilliant?

 

you can see it at the top of the CN Tower.

 

felt absolutely fine, saw that and read the sign alongside it and instantly felt sick as a parot

In the Hancock Tower in Boston the weight is behind a pane of glass in the foyer. Along with an explanation how it works and how the building wouldn't stand the stresses without it. All clever stuff.

 

Not even sure if you can go up to the observation floor since 9/11

Folk in the Beetham hilton in Manchester have been known to check out on windy days and in to the radisson as they've got motion sickness from the swaying

Folk in the Beetham hilton in Manchester have been known to check out on windy days and in to the radisson as they've got motion sickness from the swaying

Fuck 'em.

Soft cunts.

Used to drop 750 yards underground in a cage, and my ears never suffered, and yet when i go high up, they do.

There's always the stairs.

Used to drop 750 yards underground in a cage, and my ears never suffered, and yet when i go high up, they do.

Was that when you was a minor?

Micky,

Do you get the same sensation when you rescue a cat from a tree on a windy day?

We've got major problems if the tree is the height of a skyscraper. Poor cat! :-)

Elevators can cause blood to rush to your head or your feet, depending upon their speed etc. There was one I used to use for work and every time I walked out of it after going up it felt like I would fall and faint. lasted about a minute then went. Went to the doctors to get checked out and all was ok, just this one elevator must have been travelling at a similar speed to that which my heart was pumping blood round the body or something like that was what the doctor said.

 

Obviously if the symptoms are over very quickly after the being in the lift then its probably ok. If they last for more than a few minutes after then could be something you need to get checked.

Elevators can cause blood to rush to your head or your feet, depending upon their speed etc.

 

 

What if you lie on the floor like i do?

There's some soft cunts on here

 

Man the fuck up the lot of you

Do farts spread faster in these high speed lifts?