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[–] ylph@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Skates@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

8 SECONDS FOR EVERY 2 STEPS CLIMBED? Did Korea just discover the secret of immortality and it's to keep climbing stairs?

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its possible to climb 4 steps at once

Assuming you can do it in a second and that the way back down takes the same amount of time, you can increase your life by 8 seconds per second

If you do this for 20 years continuously, you could live to over 160 years old

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just spend 3 hours a day climbing stairs and you live 1 more day. Ez. Doctors hate this one simple trick.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like how it says save energy, but also says you burn 0.5kcal per step

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Calories" that would otherwise be burned by the escalator (electricity), I'm sure it uses more when under load, some of them even go in low speed mode when no one's on it.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I haven't seen escalators that do that where I'm from, but I was just joking that the claims of saving energy were in reference to doing physical work instead of not using power for the escalator.