Comments on: 1: Invent antigravity. 2: Get comfortable. http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:58:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Alex Whiteside http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4738 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:42:35 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4738 Thuli: As you loaded a magnetic hammock, you'd increase the distance between the magnets, reducing the force they exert on each other. Meaning that as you loaded it, the magnetic "springs" would get softer and softer until they rather abruptly yielded. At least loading a magnetic chair, the strength of the "springs" increases with load. Thuli: As you loaded a magnetic hammock, you'd increase the distance between the magnets, reducing the force they exert on each other. Meaning that as you loaded it, the magnetic "springs" would get softer and softer until they rather abruptly yielded. At least loading a magnetic chair, the strength of the "springs" increases with load.

]]> by: corinoco http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4735 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:51:58 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4735 I'm pretty sure at one point Monkey had a dogfght with a demon on a green cloud, and it had handlebars a'la Harley Davidson. Or.... I might have dreamt that. I'm pretty sure at one point Monkey had a dogfght with a demon on a green cloud, and it had handlebars a'la Harley Davidson.

Or.... I might have dreamt that.

]]> by: John Stevenson http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4734 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:18:52 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4734 Aside from the trivial question of the impossibility of making this work, the desperate lack of thinking here is staggering. This designer has hit on the idea of anti-gravity and used it to replace... the legs on a sofa. Imagination fail. Prepare to be beaten to death with a hardback copy of Cities in Flight. Aside from the trivial question of the impossibility of making this work, the desperate lack of thinking here is staggering. This designer has hit on the idea of anti-gravity and used it to replace... the legs on a sofa.

Imagination fail. Prepare to be beaten to death with a hardback copy of Cities in Flight.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4733 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:09:41 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4733 No, it was Pigsy's. Monkey's cloud (in the TV show, anyway) was pink; when Pigsy manages to summon one, he gets a white one. (No, wait - at some point someone's burning around on a stinky green cloud, and I distinctly remember Pigsy propelling his cloud by blowing his nose, which would fit. In any case, I definitely didn't mean Monkey's pink one. :-) No, it was Pigsy's. Monkey's cloud (in the TV show, anyway) was pink; when Pigsy manages to summon one, he gets a white one.

(No, wait - at some point someone's burning around on a stinky green cloud, and I distinctly remember Pigsy propelling his cloud by blowing his nose, which would fit. In any case, I definitely didn't mean Monkey's pink one. :-)

]]> by: Zarquon http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4732 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:23:46 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4732 It was Monkey's flying cloud, not Pigsy's. It was Monkey's flying cloud, not Pigsy's.

]]> by: Thuli http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4731 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:01:04 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4731 A magnetic hammock 'slung' from above would have had a similar impact but actually been possible, opportunity missed. A magnetic hammock 'slung' from above would have had a similar impact but actually been possible, opportunity missed.

]]> by: DBT http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4730 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:07:25 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4730 Further to the PA reference, wasn't it Homer Simpson that set his teleporter up between the refrigerator and the infamous moulded (but otherwise traditional) sofa, to facilitate beer consumption? I'm sure Dr Karl has mentioned examples of unintended eyeball displacement during MRI scans, due to embedded metal shavings. I recall he mentioned the associated ... viscera ... prevented a complete detachment, and the organ was successfully re-implanted with no(?) loss of function. Apparently all the executives in the room were very impressed. Further to the PA reference, wasn't it Homer Simpson that set his teleporter up between the refrigerator and the infamous moulded (but otherwise traditional) sofa, to facilitate beer consumption?

I'm sure Dr Karl has mentioned examples of unintended eyeball displacement during MRI scans, due to embedded metal shavings. I recall he mentioned the associated ... viscera ... prevented a complete detachment, and the organ was successfully re-implanted with no(?) loss of function.

Apparently all the executives in the room were very impressed.

]]> by: Kagato http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4729 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:56:01 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4729 "You really don't want to go near an MRI magnet if you've got a steel shaving stuck somewhere in your eye-socket." Thank you for that delightful mental image that I can never un-imagine. "You really don't want to go near an MRI magnet if you've got a steel shaving stuck somewhere in your eye-socket."

Thank you for that delightful mental image that I can never un-imagine.

]]> by: SA Penguin http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4728 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:47:35 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4728 If you're going for cool-but-impossible gadgets, you can't beat X-Ray glasses. Especially the ones that see through (female) clothing but leave everything else intact. After all, who'd want glasses that make a woman naked, but also turn her face into a skull? If you're going for cool-but-impossible gadgets, you can't beat X-Ray glasses. Especially the ones that see through (female) clothing but leave everything else intact.

After all, who'd want glasses that make a woman naked, but also turn her face into a skull?

]]> by: henry http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4727 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:29:09 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/16/1-invent-antigravity-2-get-comfortable/#comment-4727 I think it's <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/12/" rel="nofollow">pretty god damn clear</a>. I think it's pretty god damn clear.

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