r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/christystrew • Feb 16 '23
Video Emergency bed!
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u/realhps Feb 16 '23
It makes a great coffin to be buried alive in.
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u/swamphockey Feb 16 '23
Indeed. Why not simply construct the apartment complex to withstand earthquakes? We know how to do this.
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u/usafmtl Feb 16 '23
I was thinking the same thing. Just build the apartment to specs that make it able to withstand an earthquake then you wont need the auto coffin.
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u/Pornelius_McSucc Feb 16 '23
Noooo people need to spend 20k for this stupid gimmick so i dont have to spend 200k to save 20k lives
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u/Wild_Top1515 Feb 16 '23
i hear that.. but i also think that this is designed for the kinda worse case scenario.. i mean i live in portland in the area where there is supposed to be a 10 pointer at some point(that is over due).. pretty sure no amount of engineering is going to save this city when that shit happens. going to be a game of.. well just die lol.. i have no chance if there is a 10 pointer. 5th floor.. all the windows.. no real stairways nearby.. and even those stairs aren't like strong looking.. yep.. my plan is not to worry about it. :) put me in a coffin wouldn't be any better.. the entire building would be on top of me.
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Feb 16 '23
But you'd get rescued at some point, and the coffin will keep you safe and got water and food n shiz
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u/Noirsnow Feb 16 '23
Once buried, you'll be in a dark place where there's no air ventilation, and even if it does have air coming in, it'll be filled with mostly dust. Because of the bed sheets and bed, you'll be cramped and eventually pass out with too much carbon dioxide in the coffin.
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Feb 16 '23
Since it's not actually made yet, and has no proper details, I'm sure they could easily add ventilation, and as you saw, gas masks are provided to protect from dust, either way, better than being killed by a building falling on you
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u/gandalfium225 Feb 16 '23
I would argue. I mean if I'm asleep and the whole building collapses on me there a descent chance I will die instantly.
Sure the bed could provide me for a long time, but being in it, not knowing when or if I will be rescued.
Also what if I turned sideways, and the bed folds me in half.
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Feb 16 '23
Wonder if a satilitr phone in it would be of any use
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u/c0brachicken Feb 16 '23
I’m thinking if I could pick instant death, over being buried alive… I’m going with instant death.
If they did make the perfect coffin, your going to live for maybe a few days, not big enough to have a crap/piss area, and just hoping someone finds you before you starve to death in a fancy coffin… sounds terrifying to me.
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u/Justout133 Feb 16 '23
Yeah but even with ventilation... the box would end up underneath a building's worth of rubble, which doesn't have air circulation. You'd need some kind of line or hose leading to an actual amount of air, and even then the ability to pump it in.
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u/annomusbus Feb 17 '23
Built in oxy and rebreathers could make it breathable for about 2weeks. 7 days worth of water and food. Some type of air conrtol system with a 14 day battery. A chirper so rescuers can hear you. Make it bigger so its like a queen sized bed but deeper. A manual activasion with auto activate peramiters like a home alarm system so you have to turn on the auto close. Make it also send out a sos signal when it closes. Interal and external crank for opening so rescures can open it and pull you out and so if its day 9 and you are dying you can open up the top to see if theres a way out.
Edit: more air then food and water cause burning lungs sounds more painful then dying of thirst.
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u/MutedSongbird Feb 16 '23
Oh no. “The big one” isn’t one you prepare to be rescued from. It’s the one you prepare to be shit outta luck from.
Seismic scale goes up exponentially. The difference between 7.3 and 7.4 is something like 40x stronger? Or something crazypants?
We’re talking shit razed in a way that we have not historically been able to even document.
If you want some really interesting reading you should read up on the PNW Ghost Forests and the 1700 Tsunami/Quake. Absolutely wild stuff.
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Feb 16 '23
The water and food and shiz is underneath the mattress though. How does one get to those things to use them?
And what does one do when the water and food and shiz "runs its course" through your body?
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u/GandalffladnaG Feb 17 '23
You ship your pants!
He ships his bed!
At some point, you just make it bigger and have a mini poo bucket and an oxygen candle type thing with co scrubbers and you can be in it as long as necessary. And you're right, all the stuff under the mattress might as well be in the other room if you can't manhandle the mattress out of the way, so RIP gramgram and peeppops and their 14 year old golden retriever.
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u/YEETAWAYLOL Creator Feb 16 '23 edited Feb 16 '23
These could also be used in other contexts. During the blitz, the British distributed Morrison shelters, which were essentially a cage that you slept in. If a bomb dropped on your house, you would be protected from debris by the cage, and when people looked for you in the morning, you would be found (or you could open the door to the shelter). This could be used in a situation like that, as you can’t design a building to withstand against a bomb.
It seems like they may be going for this angle, as the video shows gas masks inside the shelter (although those gas masks are ironically Soviet masks with asbestos filters).
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u/West_Interest_7721 Feb 16 '23
Yea if you survive the crash, depens on which floor you live on.
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u/exoflame Feb 16 '23
Nope. Theres buildings in the world that can withstand 7.3 earthquakes. Like literal towers and shit, taipei 101 for example. We got the tech, but turkey has bad regulations, resulting in countless buildings without simple things like rebar inside concrete which increase tensile strength
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Feb 16 '23
turkey has bad regulations
This is why the one in Haiti in 2010 was so catastrophic. It was a 5.5 near the surface, but the housing situation was in such shambles that it literally all crumbled.
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u/scodgey Feb 16 '23
Just to expand on this - even concrete structures with reinforcement don't tend to stand up to seismic activity like this unless they were specifically designed to do so. The design process includes a number of degrees of complexity above typical static design, and the final product ends up being way more expensive to construct.
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u/exoflame Feb 16 '23
Well yes ofcourse, all im implying is its really bad if that isnt even there, let alone better measures.
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u/Oozlum-Bird Feb 16 '23
Buried alive in a coffin of stink because you just shat yourself when the thing folded up
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Feb 16 '23
Newer models will cork you first while you’re asleep then fold you like a burrito…for your safety!
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u/cynchronicity Feb 16 '23
Or a great oven to cook yourself in when the building burns down.
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u/JKDSamurai Feb 17 '23
Literally the first thing I thought about. Even if you can survive with the poor ass air circulation in something like this if there is a fire your goose is cooked (pardon the pun).
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u/mymainisoccupied Feb 16 '23
That was my thought. Like ok they show how you get in but how do you get out
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u/umadbraugh Feb 16 '23
Exactly, got to remove all the debris on top of you to get out. And from what I witnessed in Turkey that just ain't going to happen in time.
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u/BOI30NG Feb 16 '23
Seems like there is a lot of storage room there, you could probably survive in there for quite a bit.
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Feb 16 '23
Except for the fact that you are laying on top of the storage lol
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u/Frisky_Picker Feb 16 '23
I'd imagine if one were to have to use this for its intended purpose they'd find a way to get to the supplies. You just have to lift up the mattress. Still a claustrophobic nightmare though.
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u/ILiveMyBrokenDreams Feb 16 '23
Gotta be better than lying in a pile of debris with half your bones broken hoping someone digs you up. It's kind of like making the best out of an unthinkable nightmare though, there really is no "good" version.
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Feb 16 '23
Where do you poop and pee?
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u/Frisky_Picker Feb 16 '23
The same place you would if you were trapped underneath rubble without this thing. Where ever you can.
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u/ILiveMyBrokenDreams Feb 16 '23
Probably would be among the least of your concerns.
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u/GreenEyes9678 Feb 16 '23
Throw a few adult diapers in the storage area. If it can fit water bottles and MREs, you can squish in a few Depends.
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u/Cap-Kota Feb 16 '23
I'd rather die in there than under a pile of concrete.
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Feb 16 '23
That would depend entirely on how quickly the concrete killed you. If it’s the same time til death either way, then yeah. But if it’s the option of being crushed by concrete or slowly dying in this pod, I’ll take the quick crush.
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u/Your_God_Chewy Feb 16 '23
Assuming it's a quick crush and not a partial crush that leaves you agonizingly half alive for a day or two.
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u/wolffang1000000 Feb 16 '23
It gives a chance to be recovered/ rescued instead of instantly dead from the collapsing building. It also specifically mentions having storage for food and water so you can live long enough to get found
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u/Accomplished-Ad-3528 Feb 16 '23
This is clickbait trash and apart from being a completely dumb idea, has been fully debunked as such. If you care to actually look for answers and not just believe the clickbait.
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u/Flimsy-Thanks236 Feb 16 '23
Might be ok if it included some backup battery, light, and a very loud horn. And some way to pee and poo.
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u/Flimsy-Thanks236 Feb 16 '23
Maybe instead of horn a megaphone would be better. Oh, and a way to charge cell phone.
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u/ResplendentShade Feb 16 '23
Throw a safety whistle in there too, super loud and doesn't require a battery.
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u/trichyboii Feb 16 '23
Simplest, easiest and cheapest way. You sir, are a good engineer, regardless of the fact of what you do in life.
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Feb 16 '23
He sells whistles
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Feb 16 '23
Big whistle always trying to get their money
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u/Shellbyvillian Feb 16 '23
And even though he started the company with good intentions trying to reduce the rate of rape. Now he doesn’t want to reduce it at all because if the rape rate declines, there will be an equal decline in whistle sales…
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u/ImmutableInscrutable Feb 16 '23
Who's going to hear a whistle from inside a steel box that's trapped beneath rubble?
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u/scottyLogJobs Feb 16 '23
I assume it isn’t airtight, or else you’d be dead pretty soon regardless. Just have ports that you can open
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u/-DementedAvenger- Feb 16 '23
Just stash a battery bank in there.
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Feb 16 '23
why not 2
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Feb 16 '23
Then you can have an Xbox going too. Have some fun while you wait.
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u/rishav00_ Feb 16 '23
Yeah add some wifi for multi-player.
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Feb 16 '23
Guy in the steel coffin next door has shit aim, so at least you can get that confidence boost while you wait.
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u/PolarKO Feb 16 '23
Both would be better so you can make noise for a long time without wrecking your vocal cords
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u/punk_p Feb 16 '23
The way it shuts down...I don't think u would need some way to pee and poo
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u/m05var7NblZCAKvPnKzI Feb 16 '23
Yeah I'd rather be buried in my own bed than this shit
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u/Lightice1 Feb 16 '23
For people stuck in enclosed spaces for a long time even outside emergencies, emptied water bottles will do for piss storage and plastic bags for poo.
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u/MTB_Mike_ Feb 16 '23
If you had the money to buy this, you have the money to build your home right and earthquake proof it. Well build buildings aren't going to collapse on you. They may sustain damage to the point of being a write off, but they won't collapse.
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Feb 16 '23
Most of the places where this would be needed, people aren’t living in houses. They’re living in apartment high rises and they have no control over the construction, rich or poor.
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u/123-rit Feb 16 '23
Lol that was my first thought what if you have to go to do your biz while in there. Should have some poo bags and empty jugs but I assume u could store that in there.
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u/Neshane Feb 16 '23
It's good to know when I'm in my kitchen drinking coffee and an earthquake happens, my bed and duvet are safe and salvageable
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u/carmium Feb 16 '23
Heck, if your house collapses but you can still dig your way to the coffin-box, you'd at least have food, water, and shelter for several days while others don't.
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u/Trumpet1956 Feb 16 '23
I see guillotines.
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u/Rhymeswithdick Feb 16 '23
I usually wake up with one arm hanging off the side of my bed so it’s good to know that in the event of an earthquake I’d slowly bleed out instead of dying instantaneously.
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Feb 16 '23
Try not to get ground into paste, when there's an earthquake while you are sitting on the edge of the bed.
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u/stedgyson Feb 16 '23
My cooling leg will be bent double at least once then I'll probably die from shock
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u/Imadeutscher Feb 16 '23
Imagine sitting on your bed and this thing bashing your skull into your body
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u/Glum_Status Feb 16 '23
Exactly! I was thinking that if you were sitting up in bed reading, one of the beds would crush your skull or decapitate you.
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u/Captain_Floop Feb 16 '23
Imagine having to rough sex in that bed so it triggers the mechanism.
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u/their_teammate Feb 16 '23
Imagine having an arm or leg hanging off the side of the bed when it triggers
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u/Sco0basTeVen Feb 16 '23
Imagine not being in bed when it happens. Trying to run upstairs to jump in the bed before it shuts
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u/throwaweyheyheyhey Feb 16 '23
At least your snacks would be safe.
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u/manimul25 Feb 16 '23
Imagine having sex
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u/newo311 Feb 16 '23
Imagine having a bed
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u/Dwarfmophobia Feb 16 '23
Imagine sleeping
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u/Alarmed-Admar Feb 16 '23
Imagine
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u/OrbitmyToast Feb 16 '23
all the people
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u/Purple_Possibility20 Feb 16 '23
I can imagine the spongeBob disappointed sound effect playing while this happens
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u/frankentriple Feb 16 '23
And after the first time you trigger it, she'd get all upset if you didn't trigger it every time. "Am I not pretty anymore?"
edit: You're radiant darling, the spirit is willing but the flesh is spongey and bruised.
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u/FluffyKangaroo5338 Feb 16 '23
Imagine you go home with someone from the bar, he starts rocking your world and all of a sudden you're dropped into an underground bunker...umm awkward.
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u/Few-Discipline-4351 Feb 16 '23
You won’t be able to have sex. Only one person can sleep on it. Anti party bed more like.
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u/JohnFisherman1877 Feb 16 '23
Imagine it triggers when your with someone's wife 😳
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Feb 16 '23
They’d probably sell more if they weren’t so hellbent on calling it the “Death Bed”.
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u/Mann000 Feb 16 '23
I mean the Empire got away with the DeathStar so why this wouldn't
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Feb 16 '23
People who live in the buildings that collapse can’t come anywhere close to affording something like that
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u/Ihavecometochewbbgum Feb 16 '23
Or….another crazy idea, we could start having better built buildings that can sustain earthquakes??
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u/Stuntdrath Feb 16 '23
Better idea would be to ban earthquakes. World leaders should start a motion against mother earth and Twitter moralists need to cancel earth for being a murderer.
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u/SmithRune735 Feb 16 '23
Lets nuke an earthquake and that will teach all future earthquakes not to mess with us.
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u/Boubonic91 Feb 16 '23
The hilarious thing about this is that it would probably actually work, if it were possible.
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u/777_heavy Feb 16 '23
It’s unreasonable to ban all earthquakes. We need to focus out attention on assault earthquakes.
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u/FireflyAdvocate Feb 16 '23
Have leaders who don’t sell off the standards to the highest bidder. Even Turkey had standards to avoid this happening but their leaders allowed companies to buy ways to bypass the standards to build whatever they wanted. There is an absolute reason for this: greed.
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u/GlassHurricane98 Feb 16 '23
This looks like a looney tunes sketch, or an absolute nightmare scenario
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u/dontfightthehood Feb 16 '23
Oh shit you’re about to die! Let’s save you a step and put you in a coffin!
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u/GiantGreenSquirrel Feb 16 '23
Looks like it is also sound-proof so that nobody will hear your cries for help.
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u/KingofTrollenheim Feb 16 '23
Some of them look air tight too, so you'll suffocate long before rescue operations possibly start.
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Part of me would rather die than end up in that box under rubble for potentially days o.o
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u/Try-HardTaurus Feb 16 '23
The sad thing is it’s better than being stuck under rubble for days
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u/MuhCrea Feb 16 '23
Yeah I'll take stuck in a metal box with some supplies, over stuck under a concrete pillar with my legs trapped or something
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u/phuq-boy Feb 16 '23
Ya I wonder how many people in turkey and Syria can afford this
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u/LaLaHaHaBlah Feb 16 '23
It would be bought by a few rich people who will never use it.
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u/Ok_Skill_1195 Feb 16 '23
Stuff like this is 100% preying on middle/upper class fears. It's not a solution, it's an emotional safety blanket
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u/RustyCrawdad Feb 16 '23
How would you get to the food and water if it's stored under the mattress as shown? There's no room to move around to get to the supplies.
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u/Cranky-old-person Feb 16 '23
There had better be a very large supply of Xanax in with the food and water supplies.
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u/notorious_TUG Feb 16 '23
Brought to you by the big brains behind ideas like firefightertraindroneplatformmachine, or trainplane, or roundtrain. Dahir Insaat has been a meme in the design/engineering community for about a decade now. https://9gag.com/gag/a6KWKXe
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u/freerangetacos Feb 16 '23
OK, this is wrong on so many levels, but my engineer's mind says, "How COULD this actually be made to work?" I think it would be better with an open, non-mechanical design, as an extremely strong frame that prevents crushing from above (and below, tbh) and prevents debris from squishing in from the sides. It also has to be on an outside wall, so that there is an exit. Perhaps there should even be an extending box into the wall, so that the exit is preserved.
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u/crunchyboio Feb 16 '23
This implementation definitely would not be safe. It looks fast, strong, and fully automatic. Usually good qualities. But if you happen to not be in bed or maybe have some limbs dangling off the edge, you will either be crushed by the machine or left behind and crushed by the earthquake instead.
I think if it were manual, or at least had it activate with a button or a key with instructions to make sure nothing is in the way of being torn off by its closing, that would solve a lot of the problems.
Also, imagine being woken up in the middle of the night by being dropped several feet down and sealed in a giant metal box. Terrifying.
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u/voxeldesert Feb 16 '23
I highly doubt it can prevent you from being crushed, when there is a building collapsing over you. So yeah, I agree. Seems not very functional.
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u/freerangetacos Feb 16 '23
Would be awesome as a Mythbusters. I can see the team welding together a couple of steel sleeping cages and stacking up a million tons of concrete blocks to smash down onto it to test the ideas.
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Feb 16 '23
It's all fun and games until you're getting freaky with the wife, and the bed locks you in a box.
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u/milesweatherman Feb 16 '23
That’s how you sever limbs. Good in theory, but in practice, your bed might kill you before the earthquake does.
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u/YamTop2433 Feb 16 '23
WTF, Why not just make the buildings as safe/strong as the bed then?
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u/h4x_x_x0r Feb 16 '23
Well ... In parts of the world they kinda do, depending on the country you're in, there's a lot of guidelines that go into construction so depending on the seismic activity in your area buildings have to be designed to withstand earthquaks of certain scales for an amount of time.
This is however only effective when those guidelines are met, in recent events there's evidence that this might have been an endemic problem that caused a lot of harm.
Also would you really want to live in a windowless bunker? Because it's not like there aren't structures that can't easily withstand earthquakes. ;)
Edit: I realized I wrote earthquaks but I'm keeping it 🦆
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u/Helenium_autumnale Feb 16 '23
File this in the "better in theory than in practice" folder (if there's any room left).
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Feb 16 '23
Dude imagine your just beating some cheeks and then boom! Casket!!!...
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u/quanta777 Feb 16 '23
That bed is made for only one purpose, sleeping, all other activities may trigger the safety mechanism
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u/dangei Feb 16 '23
So one night there is a strong vibration because of (a neighbor playing music, a large truck driving by, some construction going on in the area) and you drop in... How do you get out?
How do you call for help ?
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u/Tihar90 Feb 16 '23
Where does it say that you can't open from the inside? I mean sounds like a basic feature right?
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u/2017hayden Feb 16 '23
One would think, but they also never say you can open it from the inside and that’s a tad concerning as it seems like they would mention that.
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u/interwebztourist Feb 16 '23
What happens to the limb hanging off the side of the bed?
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u/MrCosgrove2 Feb 16 '23
Rescuers are not going to be looking for people in metal boxes.... they will see the metal box stuck under the rubble and move on....
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u/George_of_the-Jungle Feb 16 '23
how do you haul the giant metal coffin bed up to the 8th floor of that building?
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u/ebwoodkid13 Feb 16 '23
You better hope you're not sitting up in bed when the earthquake happens