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Good baths can be enjoyable, but they are potentially hazardous too. All that steam and the fact that your body is relaxing totally can just make you feel drowsy and doze off. I mean, how many of us have never dozed off in the tub before?
Yet, what death could be more tragic than drowning in the
bath tub?
To prevent this happening, we need a motion sensor device in the bathroom. If you stay still too long in a bathtub (after, say 5 mins or a user-defined interval), the bathtub will start to drain the water off. A side benefit is that your bathtub will always drain by itself - 5 mins after you leave it.
Hazardous chemical substance
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
baboo is well advised to stay away from [neelandan, Apr 09 2002]
Drowning Stats
http://www.abs.gov....188a5c!OpenDocument
More in the tub than I thought. [dag, Apr 09 2002]
Perflubron
http://www.sciencew...g/movies/abyss.html
The original liquid-breathing movie [RayfordSteele, Apr 15 2002]
[link]
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Alas, you can drown faster than
that! |
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Just wondering, baboo; have you been saving up all these ideas to post in one giant burst? |
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//Yet, what death could be more tragic than drowning in the bath tub?//
eaten by rats in a lonely dungeon - for starters. |
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Ah yes, the Amontillado... |
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So Waugs, Po's been misspelling his name for all this time? I assume he's been posting all his annotations from the cold, clammy embrace of the crypt... |
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(_She_ make take issue with your choice of pronouns.) |
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Is it really possible to drown by falling asleep and submerging under water? I'd think that the first breath that wasn't air would wake you before it was even fully drawn. |
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Of course, I guess there is always the danger of death from wrinkling. |
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Even if it doesn't save you from drowning, it'd save you from having to reach back in and open the drain. Could shave five seconds off your morning (or evening) routine. |
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Wouldn't it be better to have the sensor make a noise to wake you up, instead of draining the bath? I've nodded off in the bath a few times (and survived to tell the tale) - I'd be really pissed off if I awoke to find the bath had emptied. |
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<aside> [neelandan]: That dhmo link has a list of dangers:
-Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
-Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
-Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
Don't the first and third seem to be in conflict with each other, somewhat?</aside> |
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Personally, I'm in favour of accidental bathtub drowning, which is why I'm fishboning this. In fact, I think a device which slowly lowers a hairdryer or toaster into the tub would be far more effective at keeping people awake. |
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In a controlled environment (and with nobody in harms way) it's quite a show to combine an electrical device and water! If I could croissant your comment [pottedstu], I would. |
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I quote from dag's link: "Drowned in a bathtub" Male: 57 Female: 74 (1992-1998, Australia), making up 6% of all drowning cases. I wonder at the gender imbalance, but anyhow this shows that an auto-bath-drainer could have saved 131 lives! |
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To Pseudonyn: I saved up all these crackpot ideas all my life and nearly burst apart trying to contain them, until I found Halfbakery... how does that sound? |
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um no, these ideas just pop up [double-layered balloons] I can't stop them [fat costumes for anorexics] they just possess me [dictionary of vulgar words] faster than [marshmellow-filled croissants] I can submit them [mutating emails] oh help darn |
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bris: //accidental inhalation//
- (into lungs)
//Excessive
ingestion// - (into stomach) |
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Okay [neelandan] I'll buy that distinction but I am left wondering what constitutes "excessive ingestion," anything above none? |
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I had a friend who used to drink DHMO. He used to mix it with ethyl alcohol. Said the taste was terrible, otherwise. |
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It made him act crazy, too. While the rest of us were lying down somewhere cool, like, man, I mean, the gutter, like, he used to stand there yammering at us to get a move on and get back to the dorm and what not. |
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I'm firmly in favo(u)r of this idea. Only intentional bathtub drownings should be permitted. |
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Inflatable plastic pillow wore around the neck for the relaxing bath tub nap. |
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You could always bathe in perflubron, like in the movie 'The Abyss.' Might get expensive, though. |
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I always wanted to fill a swimming pool with that stuff. |
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Or you could take a shower. My sister regularly goes to sleep in the shower, and she hasn't drowned yet. (Although I wonder what would happen if her head should fall back and her mouth open...) |
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> Unless they were sitting over the plughole at the time. |
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Put a 2nd drain at the other end of the tub. And slope it a little differently. |
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I THINK THIS IS AGOOD IDEA AND QUITE CLEVER BUT I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A 2nd DRAIN OR MAYBE MORE. |
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You could always make bath water that is made of the same liquid that re-breathers use. |
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