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No, AfroAssault, I did _not_ mean with explosives, or anything which can be used as an explosive.
There are a couple of benefits to this idea.
As there is always a positive overpressure, (the reverse of say a biochemical research lab where underpressure is desirable), you will find very few
bugs inside the home, or human pathogens/pollens for that matter. This would be ideal for allergy sufferers.
You can move your house whenever you feel the need.
If the kids are bored, they can literally bounce off the walls, as they would in any jumping castle.
Sealing holes is as simple as sandwiching a fast-curing epoxy between two layers of rubberised Kevlar fabric.
If you arrive home pissed in your Inflatable Car and miss the garage door, you are unlikely to damage either car or house.
(?) [JohnnyForeigner]'s link.
http://www.bbc.co.u...tablebuilding.shtml
'Blow up a building in just three minutes'. Afro? Where are you? [angel, Apr 14 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Inflatable House of the Lord
http://www.inflatablechurch.com/
[jurist, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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The hero of John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" starts out living in an inflatable dome. |
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What if there's a drive-by shooting? |
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zippy: tent-style stakes and tethers. Probably, but I'd recommend getting inflatable furniture, if for no other reason than because it goes along with the theme better. Don't, or else saw the heels off. Duct tape.
thumbwax: You're screwed, unless it's made of a highly elastic kevlar or something, in which case the bullets will bounce back at nearly the same velocity. Cool.
What worrys me is that inflatable stuff is genrally transparent. |
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Should make wall darts more interesting.
| nick_n_uit,
Apr 14 2001, last modified Apr 18 2001 |
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Zippy, it never occurred to me to wear high heels, in the house or elsewhere. |
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Thumbwax, I should have specified. The 'Sealing Holes' paragraph was about self-sealing. The epoxy flows from between the two layers of very opaque rubberised kevlar which make the skin of the balloon and into the hole, where it cures in seconds, sealing the hole. |
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In any event, most homes are not bulletproof. There was an incident here about 10 years ago where a man fired a .303 calibre WWII military rifle at his kitchen wall. The slug stopped 5 timber houses away, in the freezer compartment of a refrigerator. No-one was hurt. |
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Hmmm. Would this work for caravans? No need to tow a big, heavy caravan on the back of your car, just take an inflatable minature home with you in the trunk. Small and self contained... |
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In this day of technical innovations it does seem strange that we have not built anything which could be used as temporary accommodation for homeless and victims of natural disaster but I guess there is no money to be made. Can't believe that it would be too difficult or inexpensive to design something. Any ideas |
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What happens when you drop a lit cigarette on the floor? |
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Gaudy, brightly colored (coloured) puffballs springing up all around your neighborhood--nice. Best for subtropical to tropical climes, as heating would be a bear (not much insulation, lots of air transfer). Check the weight of a 14-foot whitewater raft made of nylon fabric coated with Hypalon rubberized goo: roughly 80 lbs. Might save some weight with the Kevlar, but even a bungalow will weigh a fair amount. |
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For semi-permanent emplacement, just build a wooden floor inside the house, then you don't have to worry too much about high heels, cigarettes, and similar hazards. |
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One other thought: our Hypalon-rubberized rafts have a definite lifespan, after which the Hypalon starts flaking off the fabric and the raft is kaput. UV seems to make the Hypalon brittle and accelerates the process. Find a really good coating material that's weather-resistent. PVC? ABS? |
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But nice idea, very nice. |
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Sorry, Unabubba, in real-world units a 5-metre Hypalon raft would weigh roughly 180 kilos. |
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All house cats must be declawed. |
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Dog Ed, this is how Mars lander modules get trashed. |
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80lb = 36.36kg. (The denominator is 2.2lb/kg) |
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You may be onto something with the flooring, a cliplocked system of 5/8in/16mm marine plywood panels should work well. |
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Heat loss could be cut down by making the walls inflatable, rather than the whole house. The resultant insulating effect would be similar to double glazing. |
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I'd be surprised if this idea could not be baked for 'temporary' refugee accomodation (Those camps seem to start out as temporary solutions and turn into townships after the first few years, in many cases) |
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Um, ahem. Yes. Reversed, it seems, the conversion factor. Inexcusable. |
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Yurts in some Oregon campgrounds use bubble wrap for wall insulation. Lightweight, flexible. |
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The safety of an inflatable house in a tornado would be unparalleled. Just had to the closest empty room and wait for the tornado to hit. It would be a lot like that scene from Wizard of Oz as the tornado spins the house in mid-air, except that the house has harmless rubber walls. When the tornado drops off the house, step outside, deflate, rent a U-Haul, and inflate it again back at your lot. |
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I'd go with the collapsable house. A cube of thin insulated walls hinged together at the corners and two spots in the middle. Pull the pins and fold your home to the size of large pickup bed. With a flat roof hinged in quadrants (picture trivial pursuit board) it would be splendid expensive and inconvenient substitute for a tent. |
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griffin, I read an article a while back about an inventor who was going to produce portable temporary housing for homeless people in NYC. However the final design looked too much like a dog house and the city counsel felt that it would be too de-humanizing to the homeless people. |
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make at least a part of it airtight and it would be perfect for people that live in flood prone areas: |
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ma: "hey pa, it looks like flooding again this season!" |
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pa: "ok ma, i'll go untie the house..." |
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Definitely baked. Tommorrow's World did a feature on this only last week...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw/items/010711_inflatablebuilding.shtml |
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Baked. I quote this weeks telegraph magazine:
"This house has only one room, requires no assembly and is so portable, it fits into your pocket."
Its big floaty and gold. But you still get my vote coz I want one of them now. |
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The hero of John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" starts out living in an inflatable church. |
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//No, AfroAssault, I did _not_ mean with explosives, or anything which can be used as an explosive.// |
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That alone is worthy of a bun. |
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