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Instant Buildings - Just Add Water
lawrencekhoo writes "Wired has an article about the newly invented
Building in a Bag. The structure is made from cement impregnated fabic, that is sealed in an easily transportable plastic bag. You literally just add water, and then inflate. Twelve hours later, you have a ready to use building. Possible uses include shelter for disaster areas, and instant field hospitals."
This sounds like the building process from the Jetsons. Maybe now we can move on from the trailer homes, manufactured homes and traditional building and move onto "Ziplock Construction Co."
So, once I get my mother-in-law to go into the building, how do I get the whole thing back into the bag?
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Thousands of refugees adding water and ingesting their "building in a bags" thinking they were MRE's.
Finally, I can move out of my parents' basement!
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Instant asshole, just add alcohol
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An inflatable building to house my inflatable...er...friend.
..Dr. Schlock just got a hard-on...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Yeah, ok, cool for emergencies. But I won't be carrying one on my back anytime soon, cause I'm sure it weight a ton, literally :)
Do they come in multiple flavors, too?
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...to get your cement building to grow a door?
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Finally, an environment that can change as needed and prevent Freddy the Fascist Paintball Commando from camping in all of the good spots.
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I've always thought about marketing an empty box that says "Dehydrated water...just add water!"
:)
Hey, if people will pay for water in bottles, who knows
Works like a charm.
I've used it to get rid of old car batteries too!
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Does that statement raise anyone else's eyebrows?
Supposedly, the building-in-a-bag won second prize in the Cement Association contest that it was originally designed as an entry for. I'd love to see what the winner came up with....
Imagine this:
You've in the jungle (US Army) and you've just been assigned to carry 'base camp' on your shoulders. With 30 miles of walking remaining all of a sudden it starts to rain...
One of their first customers will be Wile E Coyote.
:)
Mark my words!
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yeah this would work great for a Middle-East or an African deployment where military operations are most likely to take place and where water is plentiful. I guess the soldiers could all drink a boat load of water and just piss in the thing when they arrive.
What also floats in water?
Bread! Apples! Uh, very small rocks!
No thanks. I will stick with bicks and concete.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
This also means we're one step closer to the fast building of today's :)
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Who sees the potential for glorious abuse? Just stick it in someone's car, put a hose in, and run like hell.
Does it come with ethernet hookup?
How 'bout making a fan out of WAMU (Washington Mutual)? Now, THEY can have those instant banks and pop them up at lower cost (unless the states and counties charger higher property taxes....)
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Just the thing for backpacking in bear country.
Well, except for the weight...
-- Alastair
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just make use of the included powdered water...
Maybe during the Vietnam War era this would have been ideal, but given the current state of affairs, it might work better if they made a "just add sand" concrete structure...
Back on the farm, we called that a "cave".
"He who throws mud, loses ground." - proverb
Sounds like something from Tom and Jerry.
Tom eats the house-in-a-bag thinking it's an MRE. A couple of seconds later, he balloons into a massive house-shaped cat (or a catskin house?!)
After a short pause, a chimney pops out of his ear.
Yeah, it has to be a real chimney. This is Tom and Jerry we're talking about here, folks.
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Did they really have to use "erect" right after "impregnate"? :P
I dunno Capt'n. I mean, would the army really like blowing up buildings?
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... It's nice to see that eminent scientist Wile E. Coyote, PhD, has finally put the past behind him and is concentrating on real work nowadays.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.