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Presuming you don’t, therefore, the “earthquake bed” is rather like an exorbitantly expensive, failure-prone and murderous warranty for a toaster that is unlikely to break in the first place. | Presuming you don’t, therefore, the “earthquake bed” is rather like an exorbitantly expensive, failure-prone and murderous warranty for a toaster that is unlikely to break in the first place. | ||
===Detachable airplane cabin=== | ===Detachable airplane cabin=== | ||
The | The “self-disassembling-when-already-malfunctioning-in-mid-air plane”: | ||
<youtube>https://youtu.be/ZPkr3A9DTOc</youtube> | <youtube>https://youtu.be/ZPkr3A9DTOc</youtube> | ||
{{quote|“Preliminary calculations show that the weight of the aircraft will increase slightly. BUT YUOU WILL FLY WITHOUT FEAR FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY!”}} | |||
“He who saves a single soul saves the whole world,” said Confucius, but we are not sure that trying to save the whole of economy class will save a single soul. It is an interesting question, actually: would first and business get lumped in with coach? Perhaps cattle class just get issued with plastic parachutes while the whole of the cocktail bar and the lie-flat seats is allowed to drift down in stately elegance. | |||
In any case, the point is this: you are depending on some rather fancy engineering and electronics to work flawlessly to cover the remote contingency that some of the ''other'' fancy engineering and electronics in the plan has broken down. Wouldn’t you be better advised to spend your time improving the rest of the engineering in the plane so it doesn’t fall out of the sky in the first place? | |||
===The breaching whale train=== | ===The breaching whale train=== | ||
The pint-sized-train-appearing-from-the-bowels-of-the-earth-at-a-level-crossing: | The pint-sized-train-appearing-from-the-bowels-of-the-earth-at-a-level-crossing: | ||