Posted on 12/08/2013 5:01:17 PM PST by Bobalu
In between the menopausal robot and the almost-talking dog, The Jetsons painted a somewhat bleak vision of our future. Their saucer-like housing was placed atop giant hydraulics. Why? To lift a suburban family out of the ever-rising smog! That said, there was, and still is, an appeal to those floating condos, a certain aspirational quality that one’s humble dwelling could be a self-contained high rise.
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Heights don’t bother me. Being up on a swaying top heavy platform would make my uncomfortable.
If this camper is a-rockin...
Look out!
Nevermind waking up in the middle of the night drunk and going out to water the trees...
mobile deer stand
Now that’s a good idea!
And it would not have to go up so dang far for that.
Unhooking the sewer hose can get....messy.
That said, there was, and still is, an appeal to those floating condos, a certain aspirational quality that one’s humble dwelling could be a self-contained...
***Yes, simply self contained, not necessairly a high rise. The author goes off the deep end here.
I think it might be handy when the coming zombie apocalypse hits.
FReegards
Sleepwalkers beware!
It would need something like gyroscopic stabilization in order to not afflict the occupant with mal de la stilts.
>>I think it might be handy when the coming zombie apocalypse hits.<<
The ones whose limbs don’t fall of could probably clamber up the jack’s structure members...
Is that in Perkinsville Kansas?
Redneck penthouse.
It is purely “art”. Totally non-functional. No guy wires, unstable in the slightest wind.
I bet they put it up for fast photos and take it down quickly, lest the wind pick up.
I had one of these. Bought it to use in Grizzly country. Filthy, stinkin’ down-button pushing bears figured it out. Sitting down there clapping his paws together like a trained seal getting a fish. I hate ‘em.
To keep the working "Makers" up safe from the howling mobs of feral unemployed "Takers" down below.
Yup, as a ham my first thought was “It needs guy wires...lots of guy wires.”
You could drive in long stakes at an angle around the camper to anchor the guys and then raise the camper and tighten the wires up with some sort of 12v power winches.
Then you lower it a little and it snips off all the hangers. Or something.
Freegards
That would be a real hoot in a windstorm.
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