merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
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GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
I'm still trying to figure out if you still don't understand where basements are typically built. 4/14/2012 10:43:38 PM |
jaZon All American 27048 Posts user info edit post |
Damn, u rite - I forgot that shovels don't exist in VA 4/14/2012 10:44:48 PM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
Basements are built on the roof, right? 4/14/2012 10:46:25 PM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
You guys have ADD.
Quote : | "I'd rather be in a shelter...underground...like already exist
jazon, they typically don't build basements here in virginia beach.
I didn't say anything about a basement, guy
I'm still trying to figure out if you still don't understand where basements are typically built." |
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Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
Hear me out guys... If the safe room were attached to a merry-go-round that was rotating at the exact speed of the twister in the same direction; will the safe room take off?
Think about it like this:
<----Tornado <----Safe Room 4/14/2012 11:00:43 PM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
------basement ------sky _____building _____ ground 4/14/2012 11:03:41 PM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
it wasn't funny the first time, spöokyjon 4/14/2012 11:04:39 PM |
mildew Drunk yet Orderly 14177 Posts user info edit post |
4/14/2012 11:06:41 PM |
merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
They have better inventions than this. This is a shitty idea. 4/14/2012 11:16:08 PM |
ThePeter TWW CHAMPION 37709 Posts user info edit post |
Fuck you, george lucas 4/14/2012 11:26:51 PM |
moron All American 34038 Posts user info edit post |
You could make a box tornado proof if you anchored it into the ground with steel cables. This is not feasible in most cases though.
Myth busters made a tornado proof car. 4/15/2012 2:31:28 AM |
LovedYoMoma All American 5419 Posts user info edit post |
isn't that the same thing as a panic room but a little smaller? 4/15/2012 2:41:30 AM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "isn't that the same thing as a panic room but a little smaller?" |
Yes, smaller, more cost effective, and mainly used to protect you for a short amount of time from fire, water, and your house collapsing on you in an event of a tornado or hurricane.
It can even protect you from bullets when the revolution starts. 4/15/2012 3:05:50 AM |
Skack All American 31140 Posts user info edit post |
Looks like Tiger is already in the tornado room game.
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spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Yes, smaller, more cost effective, and mainly used to protect you for a short amount of time from fire, water, and your house collapsing on you in an event of a tornado or hurricane.
It can even protect you from bullets when the revolution starts." |
The only thing it can't protect us from...
IS OURSELVES!!!4/15/2012 11:25:30 AM |
Walter All American 7719 Posts user info edit post |
I think you should just stick to making pizzas 4/15/2012 11:44:57 AM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
and I think you should stick to obscurity on TWW 4/15/2012 11:48:06 AM |
SchndlrsFist All American 5528 Posts user info edit post |
4/15/2012 11:56:51 AM |
Kickstand All American 11543 Posts user info edit post |
Skack is on the right track. You hook the steel box to a merry go round with a shaft capable of rotating clockwise or counterclockwise. When the tornado comes through, you will rotate with the same velocity as the winds and it will feel like a normal plane ride. It's all about the physics. 4/15/2012 12:23:15 PM |
DROD900 All American 24653 Posts user info edit post |
This idea is not new or original. Safe rooms have been around for years, FEMA has a whole website dedicated to their design and construction
http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/saferoom/
Also, I just engineered am entire 5000 square foot house with a custom made safe room (that I designed) included and the total invoice was around $1500. So good luck with your $4000-6000 endeavor 4/15/2012 12:26:25 PM |
smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
Every house should be required to have two things. A wheelchair ramp and a saferoom. 4/15/2012 12:33:38 PM |
Beethoven All American 4080 Posts user info edit post |
Why the ramp? That seems ridiculous. 4/15/2012 12:40:39 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
Fuck ramps. Building codes have already made it impossible to build anything cool in the US. 4/15/2012 12:57:39 PM |
Fareako Shitter Pilot 10238 Posts user info edit post |
It's official, geniusxboy is actually worse than stategrad100. 4/15/2012 1:00:00 PM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
To the people that hate ramps, I wish some of you had your legs blown off.
You'll quickly change your tune about ramps. 4/15/2012 2:36:54 PM |
Beethoven All American 4080 Posts user info edit post |
No one has said they hated ramps in general, but why in the world should one be required on every house? That's just plain ridiculous. 4/15/2012 2:50:02 PM |
gk2004 All American 6237 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "SO WHY DON'T THEY JUST MAKE THE WHOLE PLANE OUT OF BLACK BOX?
" |
He will be missed. RIP G.C.4/15/2012 2:54:04 PM |
The Coz Tempus Fugitive 25687 Posts user info edit post |
Even assuming this was a good and original idea (it is neither), in making this thread, you have forfeit all your legal rights to claim intellectual property protection by disclosing your so-called invention in a public forum. 4/15/2012 2:59:22 PM |
aaronburro Sup, B 52883 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "With global warming and bigger, deadlier storms appearing every year" |
you mean, the bigger storms that fall right in line with natural hurricane cycles? shit, better worry about that and try to "invent" something that already fucking exists4/15/2012 3:31:58 PM |
GeniuSxBoY Suspended 16786 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Even assuming this was a good and original idea (it is neither), in making this thread, you have forfeit all your legal rights to claim intellectual property protection by disclosing your so-called invention in a public forum." | ]
Your opinion about the proposal being a good idea is complete waste of typing because 1) the proposal has already been successful on a larger scale for the rich and 2) you admit that I'm not the original creator of the idea. 3) You fail to recognize the scope of the idea and who it's marketed to and 4) You fail to recognize that the world changes and we adapt to those changes
This was an invention "proposal" meaning I put the idea out there so that other people can think about it. Not everything is about money. Nor do I desire to profit from this intellectual property. Whether you or someone else acts upon this information now or 20 years in the future, my aspirations is that the idea has been planted in people's minds because I do not have to resources to experiment, fund, or time for this invention.
Since you guys love pizza so much, let me put this is pizza terms. You say pizza exists already and advocate you should not open a business to make a different, possibly better, type of pizza. So while saferooms already exist, you advocate not making a better, smaller, more cost effective, and abundant version of a saferoom.
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ActionPants All American 9877 Posts user info edit post |
HATE HATE HATE
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Kickstand All American 11543 Posts user info edit post |
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=8622174 4/15/2012 9:19:56 PM |
justinh524 Sprots Talk Mod 27748 Posts user info edit post |
i expected this invention proposal to start with "Stop, collaborate and listen" 4/15/2012 9:30:30 PM |
The E Man Suspended 15268 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Who is brave enough to show through math and physics what wind speed it would take raise a 1200 lb 6x6x6' square into the air 100'" |
Ok well there is no exact wind speed here because a straight line wind would never lift a square as there is nothing to give it lift. Even if the wind was 1000mph, the box would not go into the air. The wind also, would never come from directly underneath the box because that is impossible so the angle at which the wind comes in at is going to determine how fast the wind needs to be.
If it was coming from directly underneath (like a skydiving superfan) you would need >1200lb of force to lift the box.
You can't specify the speed without knowing the mass of the air. Mass of air in a downdraft/updraft situation is tough to predict because downdraft air is supercold and the moisture content can vary significantly. This is one of the reasons why downbursts and microbursts cause so much damage. Cold, dense heavy air is able to apply more force than warmer air.4/18/2012 7:00:46 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "To the people that hate ramps, I wish some of you had your legs blown off.
You'll quickly change your tune about ramps." |
Wow. Wishing dismemberment on people simply for disagreeing with the Americans with Disabilities Act as an intrusion into private property rights.
Does that mean you want Ron Paul's legs blown off?5/7/2012 12:44:38 PM |
jtw208 5290 Posts user info edit post |
you guys are getting trolled hard by geniusboy and mambaman
that sounds like the world's worst crime fighting duo 5/7/2012 12:59:34 PM |
David0603 All American 12764 Posts user info edit post |
Wouldn't it be easier just to avoid living in hurricane alley, on large active fault lines, etc etc? 5/7/2012 1:16:03 PM |
SkiSalomon All American 4264 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Since you guys love pizza so much, let me put this is pizza terms. You say pizza exists already and advocate you should not open a business to make a different, possibly better, type of pizza. So while saferooms already exist, you advocate not making a better, smaller, more cost effective, and abundant version of a saferoom. " |
Except in your analogy you're not claiming that you invented the pizza
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