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The return of pneumatic tubes (www.technologyreview.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] Lost_My_Mind 34 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The internet is a series of tubes!

[–] qisope 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're a series of tubes!

[–] Plopp 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's true! I put a potato in my face hole and it comes out between my butt cheeks. A bit worse for wear but it doesn't matter.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What an awful inspiration for a waterslide concept. Halfway through, you get covered in fecies collected from the port-o-potties.

And dumped off in the pool at the bottom.......shaped like a toilet.

Dammit brain!!! Why do you make me think these things??? Other people are thinking about puppies, or, 4th of july plans, or pride month, or juneteenth, or how small snicker bars can get before bite size is the new standard bar.

Yet here I am thinking "what if we ruined everybodys pool party???"

[–] jqubed 1 points 5 months ago

They do make slides shaped like toilet bowls

[–] psychothumbs 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I still want Futurama style human transport tubes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] psychothumbs 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth but otherwise yes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

No thanks. As long as companies send literal shit to homes, I'm good.

[–] apex32 4 points 5 months ago

you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later

There are a few companies that want to accomplish that, but instead of using pressurized gas they want to use a miniature subway system.

For example: https://www.pipedreamlabs.co/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You could proyget pretty good bandwidth with a tube full of portable digital storage. Latency will suck though.