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Look! Turbolifts!
2005-05-06, 8:37 PM #1
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7353

I would sooooo buy one of these, if I owned my own place.
Stuff
2005-05-06, 9:04 PM #2
Now only if they can get it to turn corners.
2005-05-06, 9:08 PM #3
or... go down. Nowhere does it say how it goes down.
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1337Yectiwan
The OSC Empire
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On
2005-05-06, 9:09 PM #4
$20,000 or Stairs?


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Think while it's still legal.
2005-05-06, 9:10 PM #5
it would problly just push the air to the top of the shaft, forcing the capsule (with you in it) to go down
Laughing at my spelling herts my feelings. Well laughing is fine actully, but posting about it is not.
2005-05-06, 9:13 PM #6
What about carrying a drink or food?

God that would so rule to ride in one though.
I can't think of anything to put here right now.
2005-05-06, 9:15 PM #7
but since it uses a vacuum to pull you upwards, wouldn't that force be extensively harsh and cause you to fly far too quickly toward the ground? I'm just not sure about how well it would travel down. I would assume under no mechanical assistance at all. Just you, a vacuum sealed tube and gravity... but how well that works, and how soft the landing is... >.>
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1337Yectiwan
The OSC Empire
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On
2005-05-06, 9:15 PM #8
Quote:
The tube-shaped transporter carries a person upwards at a steady speed of 15 centimetres per second using turbines to suck air out of a pressurised chamber above the passenger capsule. The capsule is lowered when the pressure in the upper section is returned to normal.
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<Anovis> mmmm I wanna lick your wet, Mentis.
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2005-05-06, 9:25 PM #9
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2005-05-06, 9:41 PM #10
Sweeeeeeeeeet :cool:
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Ye Olde Galactic Empire Mission Editor (X-wing, TIE, XvT/BoP, XWA)
2005-05-06, 10:07 PM #11
One day, when I have the money to build my own, nice home, I will install one of these lifts.
Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski,
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem.
2005-05-06, 10:21 PM #12
It looks fancy and futuristic, but I hate elevators. LONG LIVE STAIRS!
I'm just a little boy.
2005-05-07, 2:08 AM #13
Sweet.
Pissed Off?
2005-05-07, 6:37 AM #14
The elevator costs between $20,000 and £22,000.

"Ok guys, how do we make this lift thing seems like less money? I know, we'll put the second number in a different currency to make it seem less!"

But anyway, so are americans getting lazier then?
nope.
2005-05-07, 9:22 AM #15
Quote:
Originally posted by Boco
But anyway, so are americans getting lazier then?
um.

1.) Stairs take up a lot of room and they're quite expensive to have built.

2.) This lift is designed for housing situations that don't have room for stairs or room for an elevator's mechanism. It's not a "Star Trek-inspired plaything", in spite of what everybody who has posted in this thread would lead you to believe.

Allow me to give you a little hint from the article:

Quote:
the company is now developing a four-floor system and another that can accommodate a wheelchair.

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