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If you were in a falling elevator, the best strategy to increase the chances of survival will lie on your back and try to take as much as possible floor space. In this case, the maximum impact force is distributed over the body surface. The conventional wisdom is that you just need to jump during the impact, but this is misleading - hardly anyone is able to accurately predict the collision and jump at the same speed with which the elevator falls.
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