Comment on The return of pneumatic tubes

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• qisope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re a series of tubes!

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s true! I put a potato in my face hole and it comes out between my butt cheeks. A bit worse for wear but it doesn’t matter.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What an awful inspiration for a waterslide concept. Halfway through, you get covered in fecies collected from the port-o-potties.

      And dumped off in the pool at the bottom…shaped like a toilet.

      Dammit brain!!! Why do you make me think these things??? Other people are thinking about puppies, or, 4th of july plans, or pride month, or juneteenth, or how small snicker bars can get before bite size is the new standard bar.

      Yet here I am thinking “what if we ruined everybodys pool party???”

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They do make slides shaped like toilet bowls

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• psychothumbs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still want Futurama style human transport tubes

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  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel?

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    • psychothumbs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth.

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No thanks. As long as companies send literal shit to homes, I’m good.

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  • apex32@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later

    There are a few companies that want to accomplish that, but instead of using pressurized gas they want to use a miniature subway system.

    For example: www.pipedreamlabs.co

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• Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  youtu.be/_cZC67wXUTs?si=SGkL2rCqdrq3lIzo

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• Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure it’s a big truck, that you can just dump things on.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A big truck…for dumping…a dump…truck…A DUMP TRUCK!!!

    OMG!!! THAT MEANS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE ACTUALLY IT PROFESSIONALS!!! That explains…nothing actually. If anything it raises a whole NEW set of questions.

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• ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could proyget pretty good bandwidth with a tube full of portable digital storage. Latency will suck though.

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