Pedestrian catapults

[Dr Dave]

I'm sure somebody has come up with this before, but it would be nice to have catapults located around the city, for if you didn't feel like walking 20 blocks.

 

[Loktar]

I'm sure somebody has come up with this before, but it would be nice to have catapults located around the city, for if you didn't feel like walking 20 blocks.

They'd have to properly calibrated to avoid splatting people into buildings. And lots soft padding to avoid splatting people onto the sidewalks.

 

[Dr Dave]

That's why you employee engineers and not the mentally retarded (politicians) to design the system.

 

[Loktar]

That's why you employee engineers and not the mentally retarded (politicians) to design the system.

And you'd need designated areas and Beware of Falling People signs. It would probably be too costly in money and lives to implement.

 

[Dr Dave]

Yes, well I think we can all live with that.

 

[Loktar]

Yes, well I think we can all live with that.

You say that now. Wait until you are crushed by a falling 600 pound woman.

 

[Dr Dave]

I'm not gunna walk under one of the falling people zones.

 

[Loktar]

I'm not gunna walk under one of the falling people zones.

What happens if look down at your feet and don't realize you walked into one?

(thread crossover)

 

[Dr Dave]

I tend to look where I'm going, I'd notice.

Also they would put information on the ground too.

One can't be too careful with this sort of thing.

 

[Loktar]

Right. Oh and you'd need noise dampeners to lessen the high pitched screams of the people being flung about.

 

[headvoid]

A fine idea. I prefer the term "trebuchet" for them as it makes them sound quite classic.

You could simply be put in those ridiculous zorbing balls to ease any issues.

 

[Loktar]

A fine idea. I prefer the term "trebuchet" for them as it makes them sound quite classic.

You could simply be put in those ridiculous zorbing balls to ease any issues.

That takes care of most of my concerns. You should have been here earlier.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I like the idea. I like it so much that I'm going to pitch it to a mobile phone company so they can make an ad campaign showing annoyingly attractive people with shaggy hair and beaming smiles using pedestrian trebuchets, ending with the advice that "there are easier ways to keep in touch with your friends!"

 

[Dr Dave]

trebuchet's are cool, we could use those as well.

 

[CaptainWacky]

what about the tubes in Futurama

 

[Dr Dave]

No, we don't want those.

 

[Loktar]

what about the tubes in Futurama

Those are best left for interoffice memos.

 

[Donovan]

I proposed the catapult idea to my city planners, but the plan fell through when they refused to give me a master control. Something about mental instability and poor impulse control...

 

[headvoid]

WE SHOULD GET ALL THE IMMIGRANTS IN THEM AND LAUNCH THEM INTO THE SEA

 

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