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let's do a fun activity this activity I call elevator time
the year is 1930 the Empire State Building is the tallest building in the
world in order to get to the top floor 102 floors up you need to take an
elevator for up to 60 seconds to get there now that's an awfully long time
even though the elevator is very fast these people are not used to standing in
a dark box for so long you are an Otis entrepreneur engineer tasked with
building the world's first multi-story elevator you have to add this elevator
to the Empire State Building which has a hundred and two floors is one thousand
two hundred and fifty feet tall the tallest man-made structure in the world
the problem your best Otis Elevator could speed people up to you 100 and
1,200 feet per minute but that still takes 60 seconds those 60 seconds will
be extremely long and painful for the people who are not used to standing in
an elevator for so long tell me your most innovative idea to solve this
problem and I will tell you the right answer