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The Beer Tossing Fridge
cmacdona101 writes "CNN is reporting on a recent Duke grad that's engineered a remote controlled Fridge that tosses him a beer at the touch of a button. The fridge can launch the beer up to 20 feet, far enough to get to his couch. The video shows the fridge using a "beer magazine clip" and a remote firing system that let you determine angles and ballistics to get the beer to your friends anywhere in the room."
I saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was the best thing ever, until i thought about it a little. no good beer comes in cans (well bodington's is OK i suppose). it could be dangerous/messy with bottles. and it would shake the beer up (or at the very least disturb the yeast on the bottom)... so i'll pass, getting you beer is what women are for anyway.
Get off your drunken horse and consider this; for those 20 seconds of effort you are expending, he is sitting in his couch watching TV. What did you gain?
... not much beyond that. As you said, it's about using your time efficiently. As a couch sitting person, he can pipeline a beer ahead of schedule. Thus, while you spend 20 seconds getting your beers, he'll be sitting on the couch drinking continuously.
Exercise and
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Miller Lite is not beer.
Truer words have never been spoken.
If forums teach us anything, it is that logic and critical thinking should be required courses in the public schools.
But if you can't catch the beer you've reached your limit... and a black eye courtesy conveniently flying beer.
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
Us Texans call that "Horse Piss".
Life is not for the lazy.
now now, he was hopefully just using miller lite to test the launcher, not wanting to waste good beer if the can landed on the floor and broke open, or went out a window...
A smart boozer would realize that it would take only ~20 seconds to walk to the fridge, get two beers and return to the couch with half of one beer chugged by the time he returned.
And a proper alcoholic would pipeline the system.
I would think it would make a lot more sense just to have one of those cheap $100 mini-dorm fridges by your sofa and fill it with soda. In fact for a few hundred bucks you can get a refrigerator / freezer / microwave combo unit that will sit in your office, living room, geek room or wherever else.
Talk about providing a solution to a non-existent problem.
It's testing the accuracy of the throwing mechanism, not the ease at which you can aim it. The test shows that once the machine is aimed, it will reliably hit the same spot repeatedly. You wouldn't want a beer throwing machine that sprays the beer in random directions.
What's with the haters in this thread?
The guy created something that involves robots, beer, catapults, remote controls, and dangerously fast moving projectiles. He spent a lot of time creating an overly complicated and somewhat destructive method to do something trivially easy.
Videos of this is what the internet was created for!
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