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High Speed Travelator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the umbrella-jousting dept.

Anonymous Award writes "Remember those old Isaac Asimov tales of cities of the future, where everybody walked along on moving sidewalks, sometimes clear across a country? Today's airport travelators have always been disappointingly pale imitations of these, but now in Paris we may be seeing the true birth of this wonderfully dangerous mode of mass transportation. Its already as fast as a bus, but when they can crank them up to motorway speeds... well, lets just say this may have a better chance of having cities designed around it than certain other recent innovations."

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  1. omg omg... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post.... I cannae believe it....

  2. First Post!!! (maybe) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone else get a flashback to the episode of Family Guy where the TV shows George Jetson being thrashed by the conveyer belt/sidewalk?

  3. Re:First Post!!! (maybe) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Uh... Yeah... That was me posting...

    Damn you, Slashdot for not keeping me logged in!!!

  4. 37th Post! by hackrobat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gotcha.

  5. Well, Al Kaida ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... apparently did spend quite some time to get involved in the technical possibilities to attack the freedom fries fighters head of operations.

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ 03 0612/170/4dnhg.html&e=1

    It failed due to unknown human malfunction on the side of the attaquee.

    Giffut

  6. Did anyone immediately think of... by ZeDanimal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ..."Jackass" when they saw this?

    Oh the possibilities.