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Want to conserve floor space? Save yourself a bed by donning
these new lighter-then-air pajamas. These pajamas consist of
two
flexible membranes laid on top of each other and then made
into
a shirt and a pair of pants. The gap between the
membranes can then be filled with low-density gas
(let's say
hydrogen for maximum lift, sorry smokers). Once there is
enough
gas in the pajamas to lift the wearer, the sleep-clothes are
sealed
airtight.
The wearer of these pajamas can use rungs built into their
walls
to gently raise their floating selves to their cushioned ceiling,
where they will stick due to lift. They may then slumber
peacefully lying on their backs, facing the floor.
The included time-release valve activates in the morning and
slowly releases gas, lowering the sleeper gracefully to the floor
where they wake up.
Eau de Humanité
Eau_20de_20Humanit_e9
Exactly what it says on the can .... [8th of 7, Oct 07 2009]
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I opened this idea with dread... now, look at the size difference
between the hydrogen chamber on a zeppelin and the passenger
compartment. You're not going to fit enough into a pair of PJs to
lift anyone. And pray you don't build up static and touch
anything metal. Or another person. |
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You would not be lying on your back, facing the floor, you would be lying on your front, facing the floor. Gravity would still point the same way. |
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Hang a hammock from the ceiling and use timed
winches that can elevate or descend the whole
structure, sleeper and all. That should do the job. [=] |
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"Elevate me."
"Now? Right here?"
"Yes, yes, raise the platform."
"Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah… yes." |
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//Want to conserve floor space?// Want to fill your entire room with a large explosive gas balloon ? Given the size of the balloon, the user may well be pressed into the carpet before lift occurs indoors. |
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Perhaps it would work if the entire room was flooded with a very dense gas. The sleeper could wear a discrete oxygen mask. |
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Battenburg pyjamas, on the other hand, have a pleasing pink-and-yellow check and a faint smell of cynaide. |
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Alas, I realize the need for a 15-foot balloon, but if there
were a gas that were lighter than hydrogen (impossible) and
unreactive, then it would be perfect. Unfortunately that falls
under the domain of Unobtanium. For now, the pajamas will
just have to have huge, gas-filled biceps and feet. |
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[+] whimsy... though I sortof like the idea of bundling a sleeping buddy into a 15foot clear plastic balloon to wake up hungover at 10,000 feet. |
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Kids, not only do I suggest not trying this at home, but I would seriously caution against lighting your own farts, if you do. |
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Cool idea, but I'm neutral: (1) If it pops, they'll fall to
the floor. (2) It would require too much Hydrogen
and wouldn't fit in a room (3) By the time it's so big,
it'll completely surround the sleeper and suffocate
them. (4) I wouldn't personally be worried about the
fire hazard, but you'll never sell any because people
are generally paranoid about such things. The
Zeppelins did fly for some time before any major
catastrophe, after all. |
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Are you going to make them out of doped fabric, or something less flammable? |
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UnaBubba, what's wrong with cloth painted with thermite? Surely it would be nice and toasty warm. :) |
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I swear this place is less receptive to whimsicality than it used to be. |
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It is. That's because of all of the unimaginative types who insist on knowing exactly how the idea will work; what colour its droppings will be; the name of the lead engineer; what he/she had for breakfast; why that meal was chosen... and whether it was eaten with chopsticks, knife and fork or the hands. |
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at least no one has picked me up on the usage of "whimsicality". I'm pretty sure I used the wrong spelling. |
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Bun for the image of lying on the ceiling |
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This is not possible, for reasons already explained. |
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//this place is less receptive to whimsicality than it used to be// |
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Sorry, what? This place practically runs on ideas that aren't really possible.
God forbid you should ever random button it to The Hullaballoon. |
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[MikeD], look up the meaning of half-baked sometime. |
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I was going to approach this with whimsy but then people started talking about how people aren't whimsical enough on here any more and now my really really, let me tell ya, whimsical annotation would just appear to be some sort of scared reaction to the discussion at hand. Like I somehow feel threatened that I'm one of the people who woke up without a sense of humor and now I'm trying to make up for lost time. Well, not today! This idea isn't very good. A vague picture is painted of a gas filled suit and the reader is left filling in gaps. Hullaballon, on the other hand, was doubly nonsensical, but simply complete. |
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I got caught in a cartoon flashback where somebody is drifting through the air (for whatever reason) while asleep... still [+] despite impossibility under Earth gravity. |
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With big enough balloons, the Hullaballoon could actually work,
just not very efficiently. This idea, on the other hand, couldn't
work at all. Therein lies the difference. If it can work (however
inefficiently) and has good whimsical value, it gets my bun. If it
can work efficiently and has no whimsical value, it gets my bun.
If it works, lacks efficiency, and has no whimsical value, it gets
my bone. If it doesn't work at all and is pure whimsy, it gets my
bone. It has got to be workable. |
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For me, just as long as it is tasteful, fashionable and looks good. |
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[egbert], is this the kinder and gentler halfbakery? |
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What Mike said. When did the Halfbakery suddenly turn into the
Happy Cuddle Club? |
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Oh, please. I posted this idea for fun. You guys can pick it
apart as much as you want, I don't care. I just don't want my
idea to turn into a debate about "whimsicality" and
"feasibility". If you don't like it, you don't like it. Just don't use
this as an opportunity to take out your own petty insecurities. |
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I have a feeling that if I had posted this at a different time,
you
wouldn't be complaining so much. |
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//I posted this idea for fun// |
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Yes. And I post annotations critisizing this idea for fun. Why should you get yours and I not mine? |
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Have you ever read the Help File, Wormy? Or Krelnik's Guide?
They explain our reactions quite well. It's nothing personal, ok? I
vote on a per-post basis. I've explained my reasons for voting the
way I do, both here and in my profile, because my interactions
with several people here have shown that it's *not* enough to
simply not like something. People want to hear a good reason
for being fishboned, or they assume that *is* personal. |
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may the proclamations of his holiness, 21quest, forever ring out over the land, bringing peace, tranquility and the rule of law to all. |
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here here! ... <mubling> anything for some more mead </m> |
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This could work...
on the moon...
in a dome. |
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Ach, [21Quest], I appreciate being given a reason for boning,
it's just that sometimes (not in this case) I find your reasons
a bit finicky. |
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Cabled pyjamas, with the cable going through a hole
in the ceiling to an outside balloon of sufficient size.
A Suess picture of of a city of houses, with balloons
above roofs, wofting in snooze. |
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it takes a lot of helium (hydrogen is just too dangerous) to
raise a person, those would have to be really huge jammies.
mythbusters did a segment on lifting someone on a helium
filled raft. it needed to be so huge, they had to make it in an
airplane hanger. |
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this is a very impractical idea. |
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[wess] appears to have walked in halfway through the conversation. |
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lol! yes, i must admit that.
this idea of course, could be the very definition of "half
baked." |
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I can't believe nobody's gone "Oh the Humanity!" yet. |
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zen_, - I think it's more because we're all trying to work
in a reference to "looks like a dead heat in a zeppelin
race" instead. |
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o/t didn't those little hyphens, before our user names, appear at the top of the name rather than the middle? |
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[+] Let's finally change the negative connotation of the word "Hindenburg" - by going back to the intentions of the original blimp: something fun. |
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Hindenburger - light, less filling, on fire. |
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