Surely it would take longer then 8 seconds [self]
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  • 92 points Chags1

    Would 100% rent/buy this place, stairs are a plus, i’m sure that’s a great view too

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    22 points cosmic-lemur

    Exactly! Free fitness, every day and I don’t have to drive to a gym

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    31 points SuperMIK2020

    5 minutes to the beach, 2.5 hours to get back home…

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    3 points sneakyhopskotch

    It’s a lot of steps but really not too big of a climb irl

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    12 points RedNo404

    Also away from flood zone 🌊

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    10 points ihatetheplaceilive

    And right in a landslide zone.

    Edit... there isn't any anti erosion vegetation

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    3 points Handstandpiss

    Yeah but I wouldn’t want to be the houses on the bottom either in that case

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    1 points RedNo404

    Yeah you’re right haha.

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    2 points Unique-Scarcity-5500

    I would not want to move all my furniture up those stairs . . . Or even carry groceries up . . .

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    2 points paperpot91

    And a handrail to slide on!

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    1 points sneakyhopskotch

    You can loop your heels and elbows over and do a double banister slide too

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    1 points abofh

    Just wait until your first delivery!

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    2 points tacocarteleventeen

    I couldnt imagine building those stairs!

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    5 points Liminal-Mudshot

    As someone who owns an apartment with a lot of stairs, plus a ladder to the bed - its great, its whimsical and pretty....until you had an operation, or have diarrhea, or a really heavy migraine, or a hangover, or anything really that has you sitting in the middle of those stairs, not sure if its better to just accept your fate right then and there or continue your fight to the top.

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    1 points Chags1

    great, won’t be happening for me anytime soon

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  • 26 points Dad2DnA

    Time does tend to get a little funky when you're tripping, so...

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    3 points REO_Speed_Dragon

    If you dropped at the top or the bottom, you'd certainly be peaking by the time you got to the other.

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  • 25 points Loki-L

    The picture in question is of the so called Jacob's Ladder on St. Helena. For some reason the image is mirrored, but the stairs themselves are quite recognizable.

    It is 700 steps from bottom to top and the recored of running up the stairs sits at 5 minutes, 16.78 seconds. So that part more or less checks out.

    The height is 183 meter which in free fall straight down would take 4.32 seconds.

    Realistically you would take a lot longer unless you went over the nearby cliff instead of down the incline.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_(Saint_Helena))

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    5 points Objectalone

    You noticed the image reversal. 👍🏻

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    3 points SnooHedgehogs8765

    I did too. I loudly proclaim my autism trait is an odd interest with remote islands.

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    1 points sneakyhopskotch

    You’d better get to visiting then!

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    1 points sneakyhopskotch

    Yes this is Ladder’s Jacob in Townjames Helena Saint.

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  • 33 points Bubbly_Extreme4986

    It depends on where and how badly you trip. Free fall can be 8 seconds.

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  • 10 points TyrionBean

    It would be a very long eight seconds, and don't call me Shirley.

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  • 4 points Staffaramus

    If freely fallIng, with negligible air resistance looking at a height of 320 meters (~1050 feet )

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  • 5 points automcd

    It is time to implement the "John Wick" as a unit of measurement for falling down stairs.

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    1 points SoggyPalpitation8615

    Lo chali me apni devar ki baraat leke lo chali me

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  • 3 points nickw252

    *than

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  • 2 points Accomplished_Job_225

    That's Jamestown, Saint Hel[EE]ena!

    backwards.

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  • 1 points tolacid

    5 minutes one way, 30 minutes back

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  • 1 points PineapplePiazzas

    If the house is 5 minutes from the beach, thats the house - beach distance.

    The point of view here is the top stairs to the house distance (we are not at the beach) and we havent been given the time to move normally down the stairs.

    If we fall, and fall the whole way, it might go faster than walking down, but it would have nothing to do with the distance to the beach and you would hurt yourself so bad you would be lucky(?) If alive after.

    Now, if you wanted to later move from the house to the beach after having falled down the stairs, it would take longer to move the distance than the original 5 minutes which is probably given as an average for the general population and not someone who has only smashed bones in the body.

    There is hopefully some intentional joke in the original picture about logic.

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  • 1 points Regular-Purple-5972

    wrong tag, should be request. but anyway,

    lets say it takes one minute total for walking to and from the staircase during the journey, leaving the stairs at 4 minutes. with typical 1m/s speed of walking down stairs, that's a 240m distance.

    For a rough estimate of falling down, lets assume constant gravitational acceleration for 240m. It would be less acceleration since it's not vertically straight down and you're bouncing off the ground, but also a longer distance so it should all cancel out. overall, it takes about 7 seconds to fall to the bottom.

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    1 points Alternative_Year_340

    What if you jump forward instead of tripping?

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  • 1 points Worried_Jeweler_1141

    These steps are called Skateboarders are bitches.

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  • 1 points Prize_Problem609

    You'd probably only remember 8 seconds lol

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  • 1 points MxDragioni

    If it helps the math: I've once seen a guy fall down an escalator and he pretty much stayed in the same spot, maybe that is useful info to calculate fall rate

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  • 1 points ComfortableArt6372

    Repost

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  • 1 points Empty_Put_1542

    *than

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    3 points Majestic-Lifeguard29

    There’s a reason I didn’t post this in the theydidthegrammar subreddit. I do appreciate the effort, thank you.

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    1 points Empty_Put_1542

    😉

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  • 1 points PRSHZ

    someone catch aunt bunny!

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  • 1 points Confident-Court2171

    5 min laterally, 45 min vertically.

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  • 1 points DocWill22

    Quads of gods…. Yes more than 8 seconds.

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  • 1 points Auno__Adam

    Also, calling that a beach…

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    1 points Majestic-Lifeguard29

    It fits the definition perfectly well.

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  • 1 points FredMcGriff493

    Than

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    2 points Majestic-Lifeguard29

    This isn’t Theydidthegrammar subreddit.

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  • 1 points NegotiationLow2783

    6 hours to get home.

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  • 1 points Responsible-View-804

    The extreme parts of my brain says you should try to 50-50 grind that bad boy

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