Infinity Aquarium Is a Goldfish Freedom Simulator - Gizmodo Comments

Infinity Aquarium Is a Goldfish Freedom Simulator

Bloodboiler — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:05:31 EDT

It's not much use as an aquarium, but it is a nice metaphor for life.

You swim around in complex and confining environment while shit you cant clean up, builds up. Thankfully your life is short and you don't remember most of it.

Bloodboiler

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Twp3pf2 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:50:51 EDT

Instead, I suggest the toilet-tank-fish-survival-game: a special toilet tank with a small survival pool and a bell.

Every time you flush, the bell rings, warning the fish that it has two-and-a-half seconds to swim into the survival pool before it is sucked down the trap with the rest of the crap.

Every time the fish survives, you add a little tick-mark to the wall above the toilet and rename the fish (i.e. Marky Mark 27).

Add a live internet feed, and you've got your next online reality show: Survivor - Guest Bathroom.

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zenpoet — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:26:14 EDT

@Kaiser-Machead: For a second there, i thought the two of you must have been friends! Wassup FrankY!

On Point: I think the design is cool, and would certainly be interesting to have, but unless I could talk my Finnish maid into cleaning it for me, I doubt it would stay pretty for long.

Side note: must get Finnish maid.

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redman042 — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:52:55 EDT

Uhm, does the designer of this tank have any idea what it takes to care for a fish?? Obviously not.

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redman042 — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:50:48 EDT

Whoever designed this has never actually owned a fish tank before. Goldfish eat and crap all day long, and the water gets funky very fast. This tank is utterly impractical. It would look like shit in a week, and you'd have no way of cleaning it.

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neo316 — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:17:24 EDT

In case someone still had doubts about gold fish memory.

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BensAngel — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:08:46 EDT

@Ben L.: Love your work Ben, didn't know that "fact" I read on an internet was indeed a Nigerian scam. Liberate all goldfish to swimming pools!

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Gary_7vn — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:08:29 EDT

@frigg: Iron Fish Suit! I love it! Call Pixar! Failing that call for pizza!

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Ben L. — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:05:24 EDT

Actually, goldfish apparently have at least a seven day memory, so this isn't big enough... Unless they find comfort in knowing the extend of their "world".

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Gary_7vn — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:04:58 EDT

Why not make it in the shape of a Mobius strip? [en.wikipedia.org] Now that would be interesting. A Klein bottle would simply be cruel though...

I can also imagine some interesting thing that you could do with big glass tubes. The cleaning thing would be an issue though.

Where I live we have some rich guy who has a transparent floor in his living room with goldfish. Every week or so the fish die and he just has his people put in new ones. Just another argument for eating the rich.

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cybergrunt — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:48:27 EDT

looks like a bitch to clean

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frigg — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:40:56 EDT

That boozy little goldfish looks like he's already thinking of how he can put together an Iron Fish suit and bust himself out of that place and save the world.

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BensAngel — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:22:16 EDT

Goldfish have an attention span or memory of like 1 second. Even in a small round bowl they're constantly going "WTF, dude did you see that shit?" 24/7. Elaborate bowls are for humans, not fish.

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DeadWriter — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:21:36 EDT

I suppose that one must have one of the gold fish named Minotaur.

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Zahrai — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:18:52 EDT

Aha! Now the Vatican can be satisfied! No more painfully round bowls thank you very much....now then, moving on to the infinate dog walking machine....

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:55:08 EDT

@Kaiser-Machead: wow. -y. stupid.

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:54:55 EDT

Bring the Franky Lloyd Wright out of your goldfish.

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aaj111 — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:38:41 EDT

Looks heavy as hell.

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Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:23:24 EDT

What no tesseract?

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ludwigk — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:15:35 EDT

I'd much rather have a glass toroid (donut shape) of some kind. That way, my fishys can swim in circles. This one's too complicated, and might fry their puny brains.

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superduperm — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:11:34 EDT

I think it is really cool. If they figure out a way to make it viable for mass production (and if i had a house of my own) then i would surely buy it. But the pump might ruin it. It might actually make fish interesting to watch!

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altus — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:49:15 EDT

Today's Politician are trying to build one of these for all of us. Beware on election year!

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DaCapo — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:41:23 EDT

That looks pretty cool and they'll never realize they're going around in circles because of their short attention spans!!!!

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klew — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:28:35 EDT

Looks like it has a terrible air exchange surface area.

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Interl0per — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:26:46 EDT

As a fish keeper that would be impossible to clean...looks cool though.

My fish seem to go around in circles in a square tank just fine :D

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peterlarson233 — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:26:09 EDT

when you feed the fishes... how do they get to the food?

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scarbrtj — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:19:55 EDT

Freedom simulator... you mean like a guys' night out, when you're married?

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MONSTERGOC — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:18:52 EDT

Where do you put the tartar sauce?

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Cordfucious — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:13:41 EDT

Butt Ugly for one. Where does the pump, the rocks, the treasure chest, and scuba steve go.

I don't think Mt. Wannahockalugie will fit in this thing

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Voyou_Charmant — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:13:34 EDT

This looks easy to clean.

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dMo — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:09:47 EDT

I wonder if the designer realized he modeled exactly how I feel when I read anything in the mainstream news. Political, local, national, or world.

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forrestcook — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:07:54 EDT

yeah.... it'll stay a concept. Imagine trying to clean the fish poop that will settle to the bottom of this monster. Also, it seems that the shape would cause too much stress on some of the silicone seals which would mean you'll eventually come home to all your willies freed across the floor.

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