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Places like motorhomes and submarines are designed really efficiently, to maximise use of space.
However, the limiting factor is gravity. You're stuck with walking about on the floor, unless you can work out a way to switch gravity off every now and then.
Since that's unlikely, I have come up
with a partial solution: Similar to the inside of the Space Shuttle, we line the walls and ceiling with very strong Velcro™, so we can climb up the walls and walk around on the celiing.
Judicious design of furniture (high hammocks, etc) will allow us to utilise the currently wasted space above our heads, allowing houses to be smaller and cheaper.
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[hippo, Aug 13 2009]
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Thank you, [hippo]. Inspiration is your middle name, my friend. |
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Well, you know, my parents just stuck a pin in the dictionary - just an inch or two further up and it'd have been "insouciant". |
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True, [hippo], true. Mine's Sympathy, as it happens. Apparently my parents found it tucked in between "shit" and "syphilis". |
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Wow, hippo, your parents must have been really strong to get a pin all the way through to the letter I. |
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Maybe they were trying to nail it to the wall, what with not
having enough shelf space. |
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Couldn't do much walking on the ceiling you know with gravity and everything |
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//between "shit" and "syphillis"// |
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Methinks UB's been watching Major Payne again... as to the idea,
I don't think it work as advertised, and would be a bitch to keep
clean. The noise would be unbearable, too.
Perhaps horizontal climbing slats along the walls, with heavy-
duty cargo shelves along the ceiling, would be a good space
maximizer. |
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I thought he was watching "Bruno". The guy has a Velcro jumpsuit on at one point and something that resembles hilarity ensues. Having a party where everybody wears those suits in this house would be fun. If someone gets out of hand you just push him against the wall. Need a quiet getaway for your new catch? Try the ceiling. |
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Next invention - Velcro deactivated by UV. |
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There's a scene in Major Payne when the sadistic major tells his
trainees 'if you want sympathy, look in the dictionary between
shit and syphillis!' |
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As far as deactivating Velcro, now that's a neat idea, and it
actually shouldn't be as hard as it sounds. All you need to do is
straighten the hooks temporarily. Perhaps sonic vibrations would
loosen Velcro? |
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Instead of walking on the walls and ceiling, why not attach all your furniture and other stuff to the walls and ceiling? Then your floor would be clear to walk on, and easy to sweep. |
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//Perhaps sonic vibrations would loosen Velcro?// |
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//a way to switch gravity off every now and then // |
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If the Velcro "hooks" were made of Nitinol ("memory metal") then the application of heat would cause them to change shape. Alternatively, the ends could be tiny bimetallic strips - curled when cold, straight when hot. |
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I was thinking along those same lines, good Borg. |
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Apart from refusing to watch Major Payne... ever, even if the Iranian Secret Police are hammering bamboo slivers soaked in vinegar and lemon under my fingernails... honest... I cannot stand Sacha Baron Cohen and his hackneyed, tedious teasing of hapless Americans with what passes as humour to his puerile, enfeebled mind. |
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Bruno appears to be a clear warning about the dangers of excessive mental masturbation, from the advertisements and hype that I have seen. |
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Sorry, [21Quest], neither of those movies played any part in what I wrote, either in the idea or my response to [hippo]. |
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