Comments | maxemulien: using a Darwin door, or something

maxemulien

using a Darwin door, or something

Nov 11, 2003 21:14

So, our house arguably has two Darwin doors in the master bed room. The first one is the standard sort where, should the need arise, you simply open it, step out from the bedroom, and fall to your death (or other less dramatic stop ( Read more... )

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DD iDers akjdg November 12 2003, 04:32:12 UTC

How interesting. It sounds like this room has stupendous possibilities. Have you yet been inside?

Ideas for darwinian access:

1. Your rope is a good idea. If it was a bungee, that would be quite amusing.

2. Cargo netting? Might impede falls.

3. A retractable fire ladder sort of thingie?

4. Elaborate pulley system.

5. If you want some sort of permanent and easy access, you could formulate rudimentary stairs. Stores sell attic hatch retracto-stair units (for ceilings), not aware of similar things for horizontal access ways. The net might be aware of something.

Hoep this is helpful, or inspirational, or amusing...

Re: DD iDers dmyersta November 12 2003, 07:45:29 UTC

quite amusing! Yay!

cubetime November 12 2003, 08:05:06 UTC

Sounds like you're trying to build some sort of Darwin-Goldberg hybrid door. An elaborate setup to allow an unwitting victim to start a chain reaction which ends in their own demise.

coldtortuga November 12 2003, 14:19:38 UTC

Is this notion of a Darwin-Goldberg hybrid an oxymoron?

What I mean is, if it's got immense Goldberg-ish complexity, then triggering the (eventually) deadly mechanism may not satisfy one of the requirements for receiving a Darwin Award, to whit, that one's actions have immediately foreseeable and obviously negative consequences.

Ooh-ooh-ohh I have another idea! The Darwin aspect could be that it requires a perverse stubborness to even ATTEMPT to use the Darwin door, and therefore anyone who fell out of it would satisfy the aforementioned Darwin Award requirement. (Actually, from the description, I think it already DOES require a perverse stubborness.)

BUT... to be double-sneaky, consider the following twist -- from the ground, it will appear as though falling from the Darwin door will land you softly in a feather bed. However, the actual falling-toast physics of the situation will result in OVERSHOOTING the bed and a cracked noggin!

So, the regular Darwin door will catch the standard dumb ones. The SPECIAL Darwin door will catch ( ... )

coldtortuga November 12 2003, 14:02:58 UTC

I suggest, instead of a rope ladder or knotted rope, just a single smooth cord with a hangman's noose at the bottom :-)