I've been having this question for so long,I think from the first time I saw one of the starwars movies.I saw V:ESB,at the final (shocking) battle when Luke hurled himself down that shaft.Alright,he had luck with the venting tube,but what if the tube was shut down and he fell further (the same for D. Maul,the unlucky stormtrooper from V:ANH etc.).

Tell me and the others what you think or let your fantasy go!

Every pit has a bottem.

The end.

Well I think that if theres a bottomless pit it must travel through the centre of a planet, therefore it's much like a large hole drilled through our mud-ball. If you fell in said pit gravity would pull you towards the centre until you meet the centre of the planet, where gravity would probably tear you apart, or you would be frozen place, but still have the feeling of falling.

Let my fantasy go?

Luke screamed as he fell. He could feel the void below him and he was feeling something he had never felt before. When the tube had stayed shut one though went through his mind, "oh no". But now there was something new. Something primal about the pit, something inviting, revealing, and it was turning him on...

There were plenty of pits in level 9 of Dark Froces (Nar Shaddaa) that led into open space. Basically, you fall forever.

I'm going to suggest damped vibration, where you would continue out the other end until gravity pulled you back and so on until you eventually came to a halt.

Wait, Boco, why would gravity tear you apart? Gravity is an attractive force. You would be crushed into a tiny ball. (After you lost all your energy while oscillating)

Why would you be crushed into a tiny ball?

Unless your bottomless pit happens to lead into a black hole.

Eh, if it's bottomless then you're just falling down forever.

Of course, human bodies don't live forever so you'll die in the way to starvation or whatever. But since bottomless pits hardly exist, I guess you could also be immortal while falling down such a pit.

Freaking imaginary situations.

Dude. What the Hell?

I remember reading somewhere, that you die when you're in freefall too long, i forgot what the distance was.

A bottomless pit is simply a vertical tunnel.

Thus, you would come out the other side.

Problem solved.

Earth is perpetually falling toward the sun, and no-one here seems to be adversely affected.

[sub]Thanks to your mom.[/sub]

You puke and choke to death on your own vomit, so you never see the bottom.

Fat bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round (the sun).

It would have to be at least 437 days; that's the longest that anyone has ever been in space for and it's physically identical to freefall.



Honestly I don't know where people in this thread are getting their information. Gravity tearing you apart? Getting "stuck" in the middle sf the Earth instead of falling all the way through?

Here's another psyduck for effect.

Stop taking physics lessons from Friend14, guys.

You'd get the comfiest nights sleep of your life.

But yeah, assuming the tube through a planet, you'd fall towards the centre, the whole time, the net gravitational force would drop while I'm guessing that there'd be some sort of damping due to air friction which would increase (probably negligibly) due to denser air towards the centre. You'd continue through until gravity decelerated you enough to pull you back towards the centre. Eventually you'd come to rest presumably floating in the middle being pulled on all sides by the gravitational force of the planet surrounding you. Then you'd wait till some other object comes falling down the hole and hits you at its terminal velocity and kills you.
I really thought about that too much, didn't I?

You never said it had to make sense!

This question is so easy...you would hit the side of the pit and get killed.

This is an interesting question.

I think the concept of falling necessitates that some body's gravity is drawing an object (you) towards its gravitational center. (This definition is the basis of my following claims).

Since you are being attracted to a specific point, by the very definition it wouldn't be possible to fall forever; you will eventually reach that point in space (assuming an outside force doesn't interfere). Even the hypothetical tunnel going through the center of a planet wouldn't allow you to fall forever, as you would eventually come to rest after oscillating a bit (as someone already described). That point in the tunnel where you come to rest is essentially the bottom of the bottomless pit.

If you are moving at a fast enough speed to pass through the planetary tunnel and escape its gravitational pull on the other side, then you were never falling - just moving through space. In that scenario, the pit isn't a pit at all, and whether it has a bottom becomes irrelevant. It's all context. If you escape the gravitational pull of the body attracting you, terms like "fall" and "bottom" (as well as up and down) become meaningless.

Of course, being a soft little organism, you'd probably die before reaching the center of gravity regardless.

Edit: Oh, just noticed your 0x1 post count. Welcome to Massassi.

I think masq has the truth in his hands.Thanks for the information and the welcome :).

But that isn't going to stop YOU guys from placing some ideas here

Go on,I wanna hear them all

what if you had a pit that led into a different dimension and the pit was continuously expanding at the same rate you were falling. you would have a starting point where you fell from so you would still be "falling" but you would never reach the "bottom"

That doesn't sound right to me.Not at all!
But hey,thanks anyways:downs: :downs: :downs:

Alran, that sounds suspiciously like a bit in House of Leaves.. :p

But I really have to go with What's Her Face here.. "When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation."

http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs4.html

What if there were a teleporter at a certain point in the pit and you fell, hit the teleporter, and then dropped from the top again? Then you'd fall forever.

but what if the pointwas continuously moving away from you as it pulled you in tow ? you would never reach your "destination" but you would be pulled "down" by a body using gravity.

Seen that with a stormtrooper,maul or even palpatine?------>

Nee,I don't think so,much like Darth_alran's theory
But hey,much thanks really :p

You know guys,if you have watched episode VI:ROTJ,then you'l probably have noticed palpatine died in a blue haze of energy.That was the reactor's power,not one of the consequences of a bottomless pit (I'm just telling because on other forums,they mostly give such a answer).

I like that argument. I don't know enough about physics to determine whether it'd work though, or if the speed of the fleeing body and its faller would gradually change (resulting in either the final collision or the faller's escape depending which body's speed changes and how).

When you fall in a bottomless pit, you die of starvation.

Those arent pits, those are tunnels >.>

Actually, it's a proven fact that falling down bottomless pits always produce what the scientist call the blue haze effect. Countless rodents were hurled down bottomless pits to obtain and prove this information.

PSYDUCK.

I can't believe it took this long for someone to say that.

I'm disappointed in all of you.

Luke's fall would've been into Bespin's molten core
Maul's fall was into a reactor
Nar Shadda falling would be the closest to a bottomless pit, which, if you put god mode on, you fall forever in DF

You will scream, everything will fade to black, and suddenly you will be respawned in a flurry of green pixels at some arbitrary location with some beeping nearby.

You quite correct, but there is a case you did not consider. Take for example a Hollow Torus in orbit around a perfect point source of gravity. In this case, a person could be places inside the Torus and sent into orbit around the point source of gravity in such a way that the entirety of the persons orbit was inside of the torus. From the person’s frame of reference they would be falling forever, and since the system should be stable, he would continue falling forever.

Actually I think you'd die of dehydration first.

Or perhaps hypothermia as the wind makes it nearly impossible for you to maintain your body temperature...

Look mister,I know that you'l nt survive the fall (that's quite logic).But will it continue?Is it bottomless?

Still some questions left,eh .