荊州一女子被捲入電梯身亡 務必小心電梯殺手

Let's say you're an international spy and a dastardly villain has just used his laser eye to cut the cable to your elevator car, sending you plunging hundreds of stories to your death. Everyone knows the best way to survive such a fate would be to jump just before you hit, right?

假設你是名國際間諜，現在有個惡棍用激光弄斷你所乘電梯的纜繩，意圖使你從幾百層樓高的地方墜亡。所有人都認爲最好的逃生辦法就是在墜地之前跳起來，這樣是否正確呢？

Well, not really. As proven by the Myth Busters, that just doesn't work.

其實不然。密斯·巴斯特證實，這樣做於事無補。

As part of a promotion for a book entitled "How to Survive Anything," travel-book giant Lonely Planet has just released a series of videos showing how to survive a variety of situations from getting locked out of your hotel room naked, to yes -- how to emerge from a plunging elevator alive.

世界最大的私人旅遊指南出版商《孤獨星球》在推銷《如何脫離險境》一書活動中發佈了一系列相關視頻，比如說，一個人什麼也沒穿，還被鎖在了酒店房間門外，在這種情形下該怎麼辦，又或者，怎樣從一直往下墜的故障電梯中逃生。

Note that steps given in the Lonely Planet video, embedded below, are in contradiction to the advice Eliot H. Frank, at the time a research engineer for the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave to a New York Times reader in 2012.

要說明的是，《孤獨星球》在其視頻中給出的措施步驟與艾略特·H·弗蘭克，時任麻省理工學院生物醫學工程研究中心工程師，於2012年向《紐約時報》讀者給出的意見是相左的。

Frank said that the best course of action would be to lie flat on the floor to distribute the impact across your whole body. And he specifically said not to bend your knees or brace yourself (two pieces of advice given in the Lonely Planet video) because "at high G-forces, your legs would simply not be able to support the weight of your body. Even the weight of your own head would be too much for your neck to support."

弗蘭克建議，最好的辦法就是躺平，使受力遍及全身。他還專門指出，最好不要屈膝或抱住自己（這兩點恰是《孤獨星球》在視頻中提到的建議），因爲“在高倍重力下，你單單靠腿是支撐不了你自身重量的，甚至你的脖子也難以支撐頭的重量”。

So it's pretty much your call. Will you go with the travel book publisher, or an MIT scientist? My advice? Stick with the engineer on this one, but go with Lonely Planet on the naked-in-your-hotel thing. They really do have some good ideas for that situation.

總之呢，怎麼樣來由你自己決定。是聽《孤獨星球》的呢？還是聽艾略特·H·弗蘭克的？我的意見？在電梯事故上還是聽這名工程師的吧。而在赤身被鎖酒店房門外的情況下，《孤獨星球》的一些建議措施還是很好的。