Re: Unguarded conduits--The unheralded hero of scifi adventure!

"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:13:11 -0000, Gutless Umbrella Carrying
> Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
>>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:47:31 -0000, Terry Austin
>>> <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>  Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>  wrote: 
>>> 
>>>>>> Movies have human sized air ducts because writers are
>>>>>> idiots, or directors are idiots, or producers are idiots,
>>>>>> or all of them are idiots, and they just can't think of a
>>>>>> better way to advance the plot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> While I don't disagree, our high school cafetorium had human
>>>>> sized airducts.  A bunch of 'em, all slightly different
>>>>> sizes, all in a row. 
>>>>> 
>>>>It does happen. Crawling through them, however, is likely to
>>>>be a practical demonstration in the fact that the inside of a
>>>>HVAC duct has not reason to be neatly finished, with no sharp
>>>>edges. And a demonstration in first aid.
>>> 
>>> So wear coveralls.
>>
>>And an anti-gravity belt.
> 
> Military issue work coveralls (the olive drab ones with all the
> pockets) are very thick.  You might not need anti-grav.

You would when the straps that hold the ducting in place let go
from the weight. 

-- 
Terry Austin

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