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first off, there are so many ideas that inspired this, so I'm
not
even gonna start.
Hamsters have hamster-wheels. They can explore the
house.
But fish are stuck and confined to their dinky little tank/
bowl/
pond. I bet they even wish they could fly.
Take one 1.5 m^3 helium balloon,
maybe smaller. Have
electric fans to propell it forward, backwards, up, down.
Hang
from the balloon a small tank, with flat sides, no curved
ones-
they distort the image. Install a water-filtering system that
only pumps water from the back to the front of the tank.
(exactly the same purpose as those never-ending pools).
Now
with a small servo, make the tank capable of tiltingforward
and backward. Hook it up to some fancy computor chip, or
something of the like and PRESTO! Flying hamster ball for
fish!
Your fish can now fly around the house with a little
practice.
(when the fish moves forward, so does the blimp, if he/she
tilts up, then the whole tanks tilts up)
Has your fish been jealous of the term "flying fish", well no
more!
p.s. I have a pic I drew up, but unfortunately I can't get it
up
on my crappy tripod site. (This is a mac, it hates all
others...etc.) If anyone wants to see it, or put it up on their
site just drop me a line.
Never ending pool
http://www.usspa.cz/eng/swim/plavani.asp
I want one of these, bad. [swimr, Oct 05 2004]
Obligatory flying fish photo
http://www.google.c...ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN
[normzone, Oct 05 2004]
Like this?
http://www.halfbake...g_20Goldfish_20Bowl
I think this probably makes the idea partially redundant. [UnaBubba, Oct 05 2004]
Fish Mobiles
http://www.halfbake...idea/Fish_20Mobiles
If that doesn't make it redundant then this may well do it. [UnaBubba, Oct 05 2004]
I hadn't seen this when I posted the Colandarine...
Pondorama!
[+] [theleopard, Aug 16 2007]
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have any fish been hurt in this... whatever it is? |
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no, sorry if it's a little vague. Basically it's a never ending
pool (see link) attached to a balloon. The fish swims
continuously, and the baloon moves. So the fish controls
where it flies by where it swims. |
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remeber to spell baloon propperly. |
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That made me laugh more than it should have, po. |
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If God had wanted fish to fly, he would have given them...no, wait a moment... |
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If god had wanted fish fish to fly? |
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Zanzibar: those just drive, and I don't think will work.
This flies! |
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Oh, and po: I speeled my baloons proparly now |
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Yes yes! It's time for another roaming goldfish discussion! Where's Worldgineer? |
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What happens when the fish goes tits up? |
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Where did you get that mermaid, [lintkeeper2]? |
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[lintkeeper2] when it dies and floats to the surface, the sensors in the balloon detect it and the balloon rises, automatically transporting the fish to heaven. |
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//when it dies and floats to the surface, the sensors in the balloon detect it and the balloon rises, automatically transporting the fish to heaven// |
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more like directly into your ceiling fan... |
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Think it would be better is it flew directly into the toilet and deposited the departed fish |
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If fish could fly, they'd be pigs. |
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I'm an American penguin, I like deep-fried fish sticks |
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I love this idea ... but I wonder if the fish would be smart enough to operate it. |
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From the description, it looks as if the
steering system is based on the following
idea-
Fish swims to the left
so:
weight moves to left of tank
so:
tank tilts leftward so:
sensors
detect tilt and:
sensors turn the
blimp
to the left.
The flaw is in the
second step. |
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//The flaw is in the second step.// |
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Yeah, because the fish weighs the same as the water it displaces, unless it exhales and then paddles upward to produce lift or inhales and then paddles downward to produce downforce. Also, the contraption would need an air exchanger too, perhaps run by auxilary air pressure from the turbopump/jet thruster system. |
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+ because this idea is doable with an accelerometer, plus it's also hilarious to have a fish for a lullaballoon captain, or any kind of captain for that matter! |
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//because this idea is doable with an
accelerometer// No, it isn't. Not unless
you glue the accelerometer to the fish.
The net acceleration produced by the fish
on the aquarium is zero. A little careful
thought would save you from
embarrassing yourself in this way. |
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//unless you glue the accelerometer to the fish// |
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that's what I meant! I was envisioning an accelerometer fish helmet, which incidently, also provides padding for the fish when it runs into the side of the fishtube. It might also be doable with a grid system of lasers that detect the position of the fish in the fishtube and then accelerates the ship accordingly (eh, blind fish captains are just as good as non-blind fish captains, I think). |
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//that's what I meant!// Aha. In that
case, please accept my apologies and this
small quiche as a gesture of goodwill. |
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my bad for not elaborating that in the first place |
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Nah, just a couple of those highly reflective dots and 2-3 ccd cameras would detect small fishy movements, direction, etc. I was imagining a complex water-pumping system so that if the fish tries to swim in a given direction, the pumps speed up and keep him roughly in the centre of the tank? This wouldn't even be very hard to implement. |
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The thing is, how can the fish actually
tell
it's going anywhere, except by the
visual cues? Oddly enough, our
workshops are currently building a TV
system for fish (no, I'm serious) to
monitor
responses to visual motion cues. It
strikes
me that you could just glue five flat-
screen
TVs together and make a complete VR
fishtank. It would probably fool
anything
except a dolphin, but then you probably
don't have a dolphin in the first place.
And dolphins aren't fish anyway. |
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I feel that I should have made a pun
about "total immersion VR" at some
point in the foregoing. |
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