Yep...
Posted on 04/09/2013 5:27:53 PM PDT by Darksheare
When taking a children's book that makes up only a single book and turning it into three movies for adults you're going to have to stretch some stuff out. Unlike taffy, this stuff isn't as good when stretched out.
Sounds good.
Right, that’s what I remembered, right before I fell asleep. Haha
Ain't that the truth!
It's more like "butter spread too thin on a piece of toast...."
hehe
Startled, looks at Bilbo and notices his hand fingering the ring as it lies in his pocket. “You’re leaving everything to Frodo, then?” he asked.
Of course, everything to Frodo...
How about that magic inflatable doll of yours? Are you leaving that too?
Sorry, wrong fantasy adventure.
Yes but that goes to Samwise Gamgee ... At least until he gets the nerve to ask that Rosie Cotton out...
Fantasy?!?
Oh...yeah I forgot....
I seem to remember a rather intriguing fantasy intro to “Bored of the Rings.” Unfortunately, the scene wasn’t anywhere in the book.
The obvious place to start with a tube system is at places like ski resorts which are near to municipal airports and train stations. I'm surmising there are a few of those.
The idea is that if a family, for example, arrives at the town near the ski resort, but weather has closed the access routes -- (go figure!) -- then the tube system will be able to deliver them to their ski village accommodations.
Or, should the weather be unacceptably inclement, it could deliver them to town again so they can go home.
In other words, we target those areas where people might get stranded.
Now, why don't folks build projects like these already? Well, you could expect that it would be expensive. In all my projects, I use the tailings from excavation as building material somewhere else. Generally, the excavation work itself is like an archeological dig, with careful excision of stones of a certain size, and so forth. Sometimes, for special applications, a stone of a particular shape or dimension is carved out from bedrock, and labeled, (perhaps with a laser serial inscription), and dispatched backwards to find its way to its proper resting place.
Obviously, this procedure encompasses quarrying, "laying track", and electronic control devices and techniques. Using this synergistic approach, and a lot of energy, the excavation commences, and the structures that are to be built are started.
Besides economies invoked on both ends of the railhead, this type of burrowing is not overly affected by barriers. We can simply divert to any of several other directions. Most railroads, subways, light rails, and elevated trains require level tracks and slight grades. We don't care. Our spherical elevator cars can travel along the straight and boring, (boring, get it?), or swing left, right, down, or up. The "train" can become an elevator.
That, in fact, is why the "car" is a sphere, like a billiard ball being routed back to a serving tray in the innards of a pool table. The spherical elevator car will adjust its attitude, roll, and pitch to try to keep a semblance of down continuing to be down. Even while you are swinging around the flank of a mountain, or slowly climbing its steep grade, your belongings should remain relatively stable where you put them.
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The next category of expansion will be small towns who wish to take advantage of a modernized transportation system, without incurring its enormous cost. Just as street cars made sense for these locations a hundred years ago, the spherical elevator car and its spaghetti-code routing system will make sense again.
Getting yourself delivered from bank to restaurant to movie house to school to church and then to home for rest so you can then be delivered to your workplace will entail no more difficulty than making strings of phone calls to each place. Simply step into the spherical elevator car and dial your location.
Such a system will save people a great deal in automotive and travel expenses. But the real advantage is the boost in efficiency of small engineering and production firms in the town. Literally anything available anywhere within the system is only minutes away. Packages can be sent about as easily as people will be able to travel.
Imagine boxing up your company report, putting it on a cart, rolling it out to the elevator, pushing a button or two, and then being done with it!
Or walking out to the hall, following instructions on your cell phone, to greet the elevator arriving with your fresh hot pizza, or that special birthday cake!
Efficiency! Something we've forgotten about.
In a future post, we'll take a look at International travel.
If nothing else works ... I just fall down ... always good to provide a chuckle. Can't knock it if it works.
Yep...
Awww ... Blushing
It’s like a bit of butter, stretched too thin on a piece of toast?
That scares me. I can’t quite put my finger on it....
I’m sure Tim, Tim Benzedrine can fix that.
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