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Prince Rilian Wrote:I heard about this somewheres already. Maybe it was facebook.

I already take stairs instead cux escalators are scary ever since I saw this one movie where this girl was choked on an escalator. But stairs having pianos on them would awesomess.

I hate escalators with steps. One of my first experiences with them was watching an old lady have her leg bloodied up by one of them because she got caught in between them. There was a lot of blood. *shudders*. Isn't it simpler and less expensive to have a flat surface escalator?

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I think the idea is that you would fall off of it because it's slanty?

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I think flat escalators only work with small heights
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No, they work with large heights as well.

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AWOL Wrote:No, they work with large heights as well.
Okay, this is your typical mall type escalator angle (maybe a bit less, but not much):
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Imagine trying to stand on that. This is why there are steps.

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I love escelators that go 400 miles.

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Absentinsomniac Wrote:I love escelators that go 400 miles.

I had to.
Dammit, I forgot, I was going to say something like "It's the same angle as an elevator, just no 400 miles long." But I forgot.

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AWOL Wrote:No, they work with large heights as well.
Okay, this is your typical mall type escalator angle (maybe a bit less, but not much):
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Imagine trying to stand on that. This is why there are steps.

I do that every week.

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I'm not going to as why, but generally, letting go of the rail would sent you on a plummet to your death (Especially at 400 miles), and if you're worried about the dangers of the stairs, a slope would be worse.

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If you were at that angle, it wouldn't matter if it was steps or slope, you'd still fall to your death if you let go of the rail.

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No, because you're standing on a flat surface. If it was going fast, that would be one thing, but considering it's speed, unless you jumped around like a monkey, you wouldn't fall. I never touch the rails on escalators.

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There's not enough room on those tiny steps anyway.

Seriously though, sloped escalators aren't that bad.

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Which would you prefer to be on?

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Sloped. As I've said before, I'm terrified of the ones with steps.

EDIT: Also, you can use the rail, and you can lie down. Humans have been defying gravity for a while now.

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Wait, are we really having a discussion of which is the better escalator?

By the way, I stand by my case. A sloped escalator is a deathtrap.

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AWOL Wrote:There's not enough room on those tiny steps anyway.
Wut? How big are the steps on your local escalators anyway?

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1mx1/2ft.

If that makes any sense to you.

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AWOL Wrote:1mx1/2ft.

If that makes any sense to you.
2 feet? If those steps aren't big enough than you either really suck at standing or have abnormally large feet.

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He said one meter by 1/2 foot... correct?

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.....mhmm

Yup, thats totally what the OP was about.

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Vatman Wrote:.....mhmm

Yup, thats totally what the OP was about.
I'm sorry, I'm just trying to stop AWOL from shitting on Newtons grave.

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I liek sloped betta
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Eh, people shit on Newton's grave every day. An apple fell on his head? Yeah, sure. First mention of that was a way of explaining the concept of gravity, years after he died. He put some damned hard work into that theory.

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AWOL Wrote:Eh, people shit on Newton's grave every day. An apple fell on his head? Yeah, sure. First mention of that was a way of explaining the concept of gravity, years after he died. He put some damned hard work into that theory.
Yea, that was pretty fucked up.

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Post a picture, I've never seen a sloped escalator... O__o

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Do you know why that is? Because people would fall and break their necks.

To make a sloped escalator possible, it would have to be extra EXTRA long, so we wouldn't plummet to our deaths. It's an engineering fallacy. We can't go upward at a slope like that, our feet wouldn't be flat on the ground, and gravity would pull on our upper halves more than our lower halves. Do you know what happens when there's an unequal distribution of gravitational pull? People fall, and because we aren't cats, we're not gonna land on out feet. More than likely we'll fall flat on out asses (at best) at worst, on our spinal chords.

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EDIT: People who are too stupid to hold a rail on a sloped escalator deserve to die.

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How the fuck? There is no way in hell I would step foot on that thing.
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