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    These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You

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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/09/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    Ok... now let's try this one.
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    I think this idea would work with lights too, and in a long-term installation would be less annoying.
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    Image of RebounD11 RebounD11
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    I wonder how someone sounds when falling down on those stairs :)
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    10/08/09

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

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    Image of Rosa Golijan 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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    Image of AndrewJayPollack AndrewJayPollack
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    Image of Rosa Golijan 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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    Image of Kaiser-Machead 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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    Image of ★☆★　Waka　★☆★ ★☆★　Waka　★☆★
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    See? Sweden is great, but still american comedians keep bashing IKEA and meatballs.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead 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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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    Image of RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile? RuBBa_cHiKiN: The real question is can it fit in the Batmobile?
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    Now if only you could make them replicate human voice, ala the previous article.
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    Image of taciturnforsale taciturnforsale
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    Image of Jules Winfield 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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    Image of Kaiser-Machead 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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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    10/08/09

    In reply to These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
    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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    Image of Invisiblemoose Invisiblemoose
    10/08/09

    @Platypus Man: It would never get old.
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    Image of Platypus Man 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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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    07/01/09

    In reply to Alternating Tread Stair Looks Painful If You Slip
    You're screwed if you're on crutches.
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    Image of jacksplat jacksplat
    07/01/09

    In reply to Alternating Tread Stair Looks Painful If You Slip
    what's the point? the guy need to save material that bad?
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    Image of Gann Gann
    07/01/09

    @jacksplat: I think the point is elegant simplicity.
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    Image of nick's after the gnarly necter.. 800. nick's after the gnarly necter.. 800.
    04/13/09

    In reply to Staircase Slide Combo Built By The Coolest Parents Ever
    So... how much did it cost?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/13/09

    @nick800: It would have been expensive, but the contractor priced it on a sliding scale.
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