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These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
10/09/09

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Ok... now let's try this one.
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Margatron
10/08/09

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I think this idea would work with lights too, and in a long-term installation would be less annoying.
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RebounD11
10/08/09

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I wonder how someone sounds when falling down on those stairs :)
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SigmundTheSeaMonster
10/08/09

@RebounD11: Watch a Looney Tunes...
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Curves
10/08/09

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I want to see the late night video of it, where the drunks are falling down and trying to climb back up then. (And the one guy who will pass out on the High C and you hear that note all night.)
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
10/08/09

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I could see an elevator scaring you (even though they are very safe) but an escalator? What can possibly go wrong? When it breaks down it can only become stairs.
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Rosa Golijan
10/08/09

@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : We've got evil foot eating escalators in Florida and some of us are prone to wearing flip flops...
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AndrewJayPollack
10/08/09

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As a firefighter, I've taken training on elevator rescue and safety and call tell you point blank that modern elevators are incredibly safe -- and very different from what you see on tv and movies (for example, the hatch at the top is usually locked, only meant to be accessed from OUTSIDE the car in a very very rare kind of rescue). You also don't "pry open" elevator doors. There's a simple latch mechanism and a key that's pretty standard. Most important, even if you cut all the cables at once, it wouldn't drop more than a few feet, as there are simple mechanical friction or inertial locks that would jam outward and lock it in place.

Even the power to the elevator in most cases has two different supplies. The lights and fan are on a switch and breaker that is not connected to the motors in any way. If we perform a rescue from a stuck elevator, we shut off power (and lock-out/tag-out the breaker) to the motors, but it's designed specifically so that we don't have to leave you in the dark when we do it.
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Rosa Golijan
10/08/09

@AndrewJayPollack: Oh, it's not that aspect that scares me. It's getting temporarily stuck when the only person in there is creepy and ranting and raving.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@Rosa Golijan: Or just sitting there staring at you from the corner. That's the worst ;)
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★☆★　Waka　★☆★
10/08/09

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See? Sweden is great, but still american comedians keep bashing IKEA and meatballs.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@★☆★　Waka　★☆★: I don't own any IKEA furniture, but those meatballs they sell are so freaking good.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

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Keyboard Cat doesn't approve.

Piano stairs makes me hope to be there just as someone slips down it, so that their stumbling activates a comical out-of-tune frantic piano sound.
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Purple Dave
10/08/09

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The chemistry department where I went to college had stairs that might have made you change your mind. They were just horizontal slabs suspended between two rails, and the rails made a u-turn at the half-floor level without actually attaching to the wall, so the entire staircase only touches the rest of the building where it connects with each floor level, and by the almost unnoticable suspension cables that keep the whole thing from collapsing on itself.

One of my best friends from college couldn't even look a them, much less actually walk through the doorway to them.
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RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile?
10/08/09

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Now if only you could make them replicate human voice, ala the previous article.
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taciturnforsale
10/08/09

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the original inventor of the escalator expected people to continue to walk up the escalator. Instead of hoping on it and waiting for it to deliver them. It was simply meant as a quicker way from Floor A to Floor B.

I personally prefer stairs now a days, being that I live in the fattest country on the Earth.
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Jules Winfield
10/08/09

@taciturnforsale:
Even more annoying are the asshats that insist on standing on the moving walkways in airports.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/08/09

@Jules Winfield: When that happens, I take out my phone, make up some urgent one-sided conversation, and push my way past because I'm in a huge rush.
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Platypus Man
10/08/09

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Yeah, at first, when it's something new, a lot of people want to try it. It's new and it's fun. However, I'd say that if they kept it hooked up for a few months, most of the people would have gone back to the escalator because the fun wore off.

I'm not saying it doesn't look fun, but nothing's fun forever.
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Invisiblemoose
10/08/09

@Platypus Man: It would never get old.
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Platypus Man
10/08/09

@Invisiblemoose: Yeah, ok... I just keep replaying that scene from "Big" and I might actually agree with you.

But it will for some people.
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maven2k
10/07/09

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That was amazing. They need to do another one where you can hear more of the piano "talking" and less narration.
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pretsal
10/07/09

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I'm kind of surprised people aren't so amazed by this. It just goes to show how complex the human voice is... Maybe making a piano talk isn't that amazing, but it really let's you see all the complexities of harmonics and timbre in the human voice when you try to recreate it with a spectrum of basic notes
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dingus
10/06/09

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Piano! Ve haff vays of makink you talk!
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