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From faggit (2017)

In Brazil, there's an apartment building with a 40 storey spiral staircase attached to the outside meant as a fire escape

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I have walked down 40 stories of stairs. Not that one, but in a condo during a fire alarm. Let me tell you, there are muscles you have no idea existed that will want to have a talk for a few days with you once you reach the bottom.

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Were you walking really fast? I find that walking down isn't too bad since you have gravity assisting you. Now if it were 40 levels up that would be a whole different storey.

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The gravity assist has to be countered by the musles at the top of your thigh for every step on the way down.

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Walking down is harder than walking upstairs after a leg workout, since walking upstairs your muscles are accelerating with less force than the force of deceleration applied every step walking downstairs.

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You didn't do enough at once. Controlling your decent is very muscle intensive.

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I’ve gone down 20 flights of stairs. It turns into one of those movies where you’re not sure you actually got locked in infinity. Then some time eons later it ends and muscles are confused etc.

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I'd get dizzy before even making it halfway down and probably fall over the rail.

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turn it into a slide for christsakes

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Get flung out

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Tube slide, duh

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Lubrication provided by everyone's barf

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It seems to be the Copan Building with 1160 apartments. If we assume at least 2 people per room and ignore children, that's about 2500 people in a worst case scenario.

Assuming everyone is not a fatass, at 150 lbs. each, that's nearly 200 tons of people trying to get out, or approximately three M1 Abrams tanks.

I doubt this has been engineered for that, nor have the attachments to the building, and neither has the foundation which will be bearing that weight on a very small area.

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It is Brasil, I am certain that staircase will fall on its own or some heavy rain fall will wash out the foundation. Good on you for doing the math!

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I don't know why people in the upper floors of highrises worry about stairs and elevators. They need to keep parachutes. In the event of fire, just smash out a window and jump.

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Some of that weight bearing is engineered into the (hopefully still - standing) building

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I know I've got mild acrophobia. Looking at that, I might opt for burning to death.

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I know I would be hugging the center pole in terror the whole way down.

I can already already feel the sway

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Imagine it getting covered in ice.

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I want to run up it. Stairclimber!

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I would DEFINITELY add this to my exercise regime if I lived anywhere close to it!

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Ghostbusters music 🎵

Walking stairs to meet Zuel

Ray says something sarcastic

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Firefighters on 911

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