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The postscript mentions a paternoster, which I'd never heard of and is absolutely fascinating. It looks incredibly dangerous. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.o
by karzeem 16y ago
The postscript mentions a paternoster, which I'd never heard of and is absolutely fascinating. It looks incredibly dangerous.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster
Example of one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSnNzGJDdg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSnNzGJDdg
- jgrahamc 16y agoThe one in Oxford was brilliant to ride. To the hacker mind it's a great optimization. And yes, I did ignore the warning signs and make the trip around the bottom.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoWhat happens if, say, you slip and bonk your head on the rail, and end up laying there with your leg sticking out the door?
- jedc 16y agoA couple years ago I was in a building in Vienna that had one... it was brilliant! It was a little scary stepping on for the first time (probably like stepping on an escalator for the first time when I was a kid, not that I remember) but it's a really unique system.
- pmjordan 16y agoVienna, Austria? (not the one in Ontario or the ~dozen in US) Do you remember what building that was? I'd love to check it out. Another option to the lift UI conundrum that I've encountered in Vienna is to have dedicated staff operating it. It's extremely rare these days, one example I can think of is the Staatsoper (State Opera). You still need a button to call it, but the operator decides what floors to visit in what order. Cost efficient? Probably not, but considering how hard it is to get tickets to the Opera (by subscription or depositing €250 to be entered into the ticket lottery) I guess they can afford to keep up the tradition. EDIT: I'd love to know why I'm being downvoted.
- kenver 16y agoThere's one in the arts tower at Sheffield university, it's a 1960s building and quite ugly but it has a paternoster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Tower). I remember going all the way around on it with my friend Mary when we should have been in lectures. A very fun ride!
- michaelcampbell 16y agoNeat. Before I read the comments and realized this actually existed I was thinking about something like this; a physical "token ring"!
- jgrahamc 16y agoThat's not how token ring works. In a token ring a single token circulates and is captured by a node wishing to transmit. That node then transmits its frame. When the transmitted frame is received back by the transmitter (it has gone full circle around the ring), the token is released and continues circulating.
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- nollidge 16y agoDoes anyone know of any paternosters in the U.S. or Canada? My new life goal is to ride one, and it'd be swell if I didn't have to go far to do it...
- rythie 16y agoThe one at Leicester Uni was cool, kind of felt dangerous, have to be careful when you get on.
- ahoyhere 16y agoSweet! There are several in Vienna. I'm soooo going to check one out. Vienna has a lot of ancient and/or newer-but-micro elevators. Quite often going to the doctor or meeting somebody in their apartment, we end up in an old all-wood elevator with a bench, and no inner door. Typically they have wrought iron or brass external doors, and sometimes carpeting. Some newer ones from the 70s and 80s even have no inner doors - but some kind of (possibly infrared) sensor so, if you stick your hand in the space, it will grind to a stop. Crayzee.