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Fishtanks and bowls, suspended at varying heights from ceilings. Little fishes, staring down, with bulging eyes, through the bottoms of fishbowls that magnify them to the viewer.
I'm surprised this hasn't been done, at some museum of modern art, somewhere.
Entitled, "Waiting For Manna"
Semi-submersible ferris wheel
http://www.halfbake...le_20Ferris_20wheel
[hippo, Sep 19 2002, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Dangly zoo
http://www.halfbake...m/idea/Dangly_20Zoo
[IvanIdea, Sep 19 2002, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Related Idea
http://www.halfbake...g_20Goldfish_20Bowl
[UnaBubba, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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If the whole thing moved, very slowly, it could make a wonderful centrepiece for a hotel lobby or office building. Croissant. |
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Yes. I'm thinking braided stainless steel cables and plexiglass bowls (to save weight). |
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You could have salmon leaping from bowl to bowl. |
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The ultimate cat teaser toy. |
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Ok, let's go with [UB]'s idea of plexiglass bowls and thin steel cables. If you add some nodes that contain gerbils or hamsters with little wheels, and then put lightweight propellers on the output shafts of the wheels, then as the little rodents scampered round, the props would gently move the various elements of the mobile - a sort of suspended micro zoo. Getting up to feed and water the animals would be challenging. And there is the "excretion" issue but I'm sure that's soluble. If this hung down a shaft with spectator galleries round each side (shopping mall ?) it would be quite fascinating. Kids would love it. Providing it was kept cool, and the animals received proper care, it would be no worse than keeping the same animals in static cages in a shop. |
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The feeding issue prompted the title, "Waiting For Manna". Which is what fish do, when you think about it. |
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See link for another idea in the "Enclosed fauna in motion
for decorative effect" category. |
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This is one of those ideas that makes me want to go have it built. I'd hate to try and clean it, though. |
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Didn't someone post an idea for mechanical goldfish once? |
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How do we know these fishbowls aren't a pretext to get minicameras over our workstations? |
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Watch out for the genetically modified Spy Guppies General, beaming their observations back over Bluetooth networks .... |
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Don't be a big silly. Everyone knows there's no such thing as Bluetooth. |
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Well I like it but I guess that the bowls/tanks would have to be fully enclosed. Strong too, people are forever hitting their heads on mobiles and in this case that could have ugly results.. |
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[UB] and [Bliss] both like mobiles, and [UB] used to stop ceiling fans with his head. There's a picture building up here .... |
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True, [upsetaubergine], or is it just a myth that holding a mobile near your head, day after day, can give you brain tumours? |
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I think they're more worried about cell damage. |
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As an alternative to the hamster fans suggested by 8th of 7, I'd like to see a mechanism that moves each bowl in the direction that the fish inside is swimming in. |
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That can be arranged, jutta. Eventually, the fish inside can just coast along, looking at the passing scenery. |
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This would provide the best ever venue for the climactic shoot-up scene in a film. A surreal cascade of water, fish (and even hamsters) as the bullets fly... |
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Also potential for lines such as: "For you, Mr Bond, I am afraid the whiting is on the wall..." |
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"That's a different kettle of fish, eh Moneypenny?"
or
"Goldfingerling" |
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"A Fish Called Wanda" ? No, they did that one already ..... |
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If the fishbowls could move at the fish's behest - per [jutta] - then would they be fishmobiles? Then you could have Fishmobile Mobiles. |
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(phew - that was close, narrowly avoided another pun-fest.) |
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Select one of [Pierce Brosnan, Brice Willis, Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Arnold Shwarzenegger] and one of [SWAT Team, Aliens, Velociraptors, Giant Bugs, Look-alike Oriental Ninjas] and one of [M76-A Minigun, MAC-11, Uzi, Remington 12-guage pump action, M16A1 with Snail mag and M40G-A1 40mm grenade launcher]. |
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Add 20,000 rounds of S.A.A.: Place one of [Nuclear Device, Money, Gold, Hero's Girl] beneath Giant Fragile Rotating Mobile filed with pirahna fish, vampire bats, snakes, scorpions, rats and one terrified Mugwai (to allow Hero to perform Last Minute Dangerous Dramatic Rescue). |
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Bit of a poor idea really - As a fish owner I have to change their water etc every 2 weeks. If you had them dangling from the ceiling, after about 2 weeks all you'd see is fish poo! I'd have to come with special cleaning devices. One thing I tried - that looked great - was putting a fish in a large wine glass (with water). Unfortunately it died from the stress! |
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Well, if you had put it in a large wine glass with wine, it would still have died, but might have at least died happy......... |
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Stress ? Are they bright enough to suffer stress ? Are you sure it wasn't simple deoxgenation ? People bring goldfish home from shops in plastic bags, that must be pretty stressful ..... |
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Aha! It seems I spoke to soon about 8/7's nothing accomplisher centrifugal fishtanks. Because what they do accomplish, is sifting the fishshit to the side of the tank, where it would not obscure the understationed viewer's vista. It might also serve as a propulsion mechanism, UFO-wise. |
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[aphidman], I covered your back against the evil CurryBot on your dogshit idea. Now you gum up my mobile with fishshit. What is it with you and excrement? |
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That's quite funny, if you mullet over for a while. |
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If you run tubing through the steel cables, fresh water could be constantly running through the system. |
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With a little Kreepy-Krawly pool vacuum system in each tank? Thank you. |
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Tuna, that might just work? |
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Stop it - you guys are gilling me! |
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[whimsickle] - You need to get out of this Plaice |
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Am I the sole person who finds this finny? |
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Your puns are beginning to flounder. |
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don't carp on about it, it makes me tench |
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Oh, be quite. That's just your shagreen talking. |
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I can't believe it. Any excuse for a tirade of puns. You guys are scaling new heights this time... I hope by saying this I won't be making anenome out of you. |
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Methinks you doth protest too much. |
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Ok. Ya got me. I seen the frenzy and I couldn't resist. No matter how tenuous, I had to do join in. I tried not to. I will stop now, for goodness hake. |
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There's still a ray of hope. You could make off with a couple of loose quid if you leave now. Be careful, you could end up down at 'eel if you choose to post any more, eh? |
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Not 'eel!!! I am remora-sful. I shall ask Cod for forgiveness. |
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You may be forgiven salmon occasion, but you can't hope to expunge all of them. That's just sawfishness. |
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I wonder... can we arrange a catfish in a tank for 8/7? |
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Lets hope so...but I think he'd prefer a cat in a fishtank. |
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He must be stuck in a tank himself, I think, about now. |
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