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FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
in Zocalo v2.0
...on sci-fi shows, power actuated doors just seem to know when to open and when not to?

How 'bout others?

Jake

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  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    yeah, like those doors at supermarkets etc... they always open when i approach.. there must be someone watching me with a remote control for those doors....
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    I love that episode of simpsons where Bart sells his soul to milhouse, and he cant get the doors to open ;)
  • WHYWHY Elite Ranger
    pfft... the soul is just some story made up to scare kids... like Santa Claus and Michael Jackson
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Actually, those doors at super markets always open JUST after you have to stop becuase you are about to run into them.

    This has to be some sort of conspiracy...
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    Yesss............ :vorlon:
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    On the underpass at university, one of the doors sometimes closes when people approach it.
  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]On the underpass at university, one of the doors sometimes closes when people approach it. [/B][/QUOTE]
    if i think about some of the people who are going to university here, that sounds like the right thing to do for a door...
  • samuelksamuelk The Unstoppable Mr. 'K'
    I remember a short film by Rich Hall (one of the original cast of HBO's "Not Necessarily the News", and creator of Sniglets), where he stole the mat that you step on to activate the supermarket doors (before most businesses started using the overhead sensors).

    He would drop the mat on the floor in front of anything with a door, and it would open. Then he ended up cutting out part of the mat and gluing the material to the bottom of his shoes, and everything he walked by would open (including car trunks, bank ATMs, etc.).

    Funny stuff.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WHY [/i]
    [B]pfft... the soul is just some story made up to scare kids... like Santa Claus and Michael Jackson [/B][/QUOTE]

    AAAAAaaaaargh!"¤%#"
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    yeah most automated doors are just too damn slow, I want the super speedy sci fi doors already damnit!
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i]
    [B]yeah most automated doors are just too damn slow, I want the super speedy sci fi doors already damnit! [/B][/QUOTE]

    Do you want that with or without the million and one lawsuits for door injuries? ;)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I had this discussion with someone else a few weeks ago regarding some new automatic, single-pane glass doors at university. They move very slowly, but the conclusion we came to was that if they were setup to move faster the chances of slicing someone up were quite high, plus you don't really want to very large pieces of glass slamming together at high speed.
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    Every door should bee as the doors in "the hitchhiker's guid to the galaxy"!!!
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CurZ [/i]
    [B]Do you want that with or without the million and one lawsuits for door injuries? ;) [/B][/QUOTE]


    okay have you ever noticed Sci fi doors open INTO the walls? not like the swing open super market doors? now as long as they dont close with maiming force.. were okay.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by C_Mon [/i]
    [B]Every door should bee as the doors in "the hitchhiker's guid to the galaxy"!!! [/B][/QUOTE]

    I was thinking more like every door should be like the ones in Matrix: Reloaded...

    ;)

    :D
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i]
    [B]okay have you ever noticed Sci fi doors open INTO the walls? not like the swing open super market doors? now as long as they dont close with maiming force.. were okay. [/B][/QUOTE]

    The closing of the doors is exactly what I was referring to :p
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
    [B]I was thinking more like every door should be like the ones in Matrix: Reloaded...

    ;)

    :D [/B][/QUOTE]
    Haven't seen it yet! Maybe I'll go see it this week if there are seats left.
    BTW Matrix:Reloaded had it's premier today here in Finland!
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CurZ [/i]
    [B]The closing of the doors is exactly what I was referring to :p [/B][/QUOTE]


    heh, I was just worried about random swinging doors hitting people, but if they arent that heavy, and their actuators are not that strong we dont have anything to worry about!
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i]
    [B]okay have you ever noticed Sci fi doors open INTO the walls? [/B][/QUOTE]

    They do that on a couple of supermarkets where i live.
  • RubberEagleRubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?
    í don't remember seeing doors that don't ;)
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Here's one I wondered about, all the doors to crew quaters on B5 open by swinging up into the wall, while the door to G'kar's quarters slides horizontally into the wall? I wonder why that is?

    Jake
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    There are a couple of doors like that. The one in Security is horizontal, and I think the one in the Observation dome is, too.
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    Hmm, purely speculation, but the door could be configured such that if power is lost, it will swing shut by centripetal acceleration (not gravity). For the 'more important' people and places, redundant mechanisms would be in place to ensure the door shut, so there is no need to swing down. Also for the observation dome, which is closer to the axis of the station, there might not be enough centripetal acceleration to close a heavy door.

    All conjecture.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Also, perhaps being built around a single joint would make reliability that much higher when compared to, say, a horizontal sliding door, where you'd have to have top and botom rollers/hinges/frames, etc.
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    The doors at security and C&C are different than the crew quarter doors in that they are two piece doors that close together.

    G'kar's door is indentical to the other ambassidor's and crews, but yet it opens sideways?

    Jake
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    The CnC door is a single door. It's medlab that has a double door.
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