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Pimp my office building...with tubes

Posted May 07, 2007 4:53 PM

From Crave: The gadget blog:

In a couple of years, when I've taken over the world, I'm going to build myself an office building. And it's going to have one of these built into it: a giant metal tube-shaped slide for easy access from the upper stories to the ground floor, like these ones found at the Tate Modern Art Gallery in London. Think about it. It'll save energy, because fewer people will be using the elevator. And it's just plain awesome. In fact, I think I'll install four or five of them, so that it's extra easy to get from one floor to the next. (Don't ask me how I plan to solve the "But how do you get upstairs?" problem. By the time I've taken over the world, I'll have people to come up with answers to such petty questions for me.)

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Re: Pimp my office building...with tubes

05/07/2007 11:27 PM

those tubes are older than I am, and when we were kids, it was easy to get back up in them, we took our shoes and socks off, and the moisture in our feet made us be able to climb right up, like little monkees climbing a tree.. Then the fun begun, wax paper to sit on and WOW what a ride, especially from the 2nd story...

They were called Fire Escapes.....

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05/07/2007 11:45 PM

With the mention of static in the link , the thing you copy will become a pilgrimage site for Challenge Question readers.

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