oscar111
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Sat May-28-05 04:06 AM
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Pneumo-tubes to bring all necessities to every home |
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pneumo tubes are those air pressure tubes you see at some bank drive ups that send the capsule rabbits thru them to the car.
I was fascinated by a scifi story in which such tubes brought all needed food and gadgets to every house.
We have built sewer tubes to every home, and they have the same cross-section volume needed by supply pneumotubes.
So we COULD build them.
What do you think of it?
Good? Bad?
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Spinzonner
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Sat May-28-05 04:35 AM
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Sugarbleus
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Sun May-29-05 02:07 PM
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I'd like to see a chocolate cake go through one of those tubes.. ;)
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oscar111
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Fri Jun-17-05 02:16 PM
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4. "Let them eat {chocolate} cake" |
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Well, hmmm.... i guess things will have to be trimmed and folded to get thru the tubes.
A tube the size of a sewer pipe is feasible, since that exists now for every habitat. Arent they about seven inches across?
You could get an oblong Choclate Cake thru .
Is that your main diet, sugarblues? LOL
PS what does sugarblues mean?
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Sat May-28-05 04:41 AM
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2. In the early 70's when i worked at 1000 bed hospital lots of |
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stuff --pharmacy meds, supplies, patient charts, etc was transported by these tubes. Across and up and down. i do not know if they still use them but they sure were efficient and quick.
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oscar111
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Wed Jun-22-05 01:54 AM
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5. Computer notices running out of an item, re-orders, TUBE sends it |
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the scifi story had a TUBE computer monitor your pantry, and when an item began to run low, it automaticaly sent more to you via the TUBE.
so your valuable brain did not waste a second of life with shopping for basic regular things, like food or combs or socks.
sounds good to me... comments?
'THE BASICS SHOULD BE AUTOMATIC"
said the scifi story.
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