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We feel sorry for goldfish because they
only have that small area to swim back
and forth in with their little bowls, then
we do the same thing in our pools. Back
and forth. That's it.
Put big clear Lucite tubes that extend out
of the pool and around the house, all
over the property then
come back to the
pool. Make swimming laps a lot more
interesting.
Or if clear plastic tubes look to goofy,
just have a pool that has a series of
canals all over the property that you can
swim in. Get the pumps flowing the
water through them so you can either
swim laps or just float along on a raft
sipping a cocktail, wearing sunglasses
and looking excellent.
marine_20life_20double_20glazing
See [gnormal]'s annotations to this idea. I think he actually built what you're talking about. [hippo, Jan 10 2008]
Play this link after reading xenzag's comment
http://www.audiospa...fm/sound_iid.242697
"dat-da-dat - crash!" [doctorremulac3, Jan 11 2008]
Orbital Guppies
orbital_20guppies
One of TwoFries' finest [gnomethang, Jan 11 2008]
[link]
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Throw in a couple of waterslides, and Bob is your father's sister's mother's son's other brother. |
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Safety may be a real issue, though. |
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[doctor...] One presumes you reside in reasonable proximity, both geographically and demographically to [Maxwell...]. Your proposition is widely known to exist in the major resorts and theme parks (where large acreage is a given) that people of lesser means frequent. However, the notion of private theme park, a la "NeverNeverland", although baked, is not widely known to exist. I wish you well in your endeavour, and presume the large pool/channel cleaning staff won't dent the dowry, as did [Maxwell...]'s Mole Eradicator... you know for croquet lawns. |
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I don't like the tubes, not just for the looks, but because unlike a fish, I need air. I like the canals if only because it doubles as a moat and if the current is kept reasonable, kids would love it and on holidays you could make little rides. |
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LOL. I'd pictured the tubes being
halfway filled with water as opposed to
completely full. Yea, that would be
pretty scary trying to make it to the
next pocket of air holding your breath. |
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But, yea, loose the tubes. I'm picturing
more of a meandering garden path only
made out of flowing water. Aqua ducts
go over where the ground dips, canals
cut through hills etc. I guess it would
be like one of those Disney rides where
you float along and see stuff only you
wouldn't be in a boat, you'd just swim. |
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Granted, maybe I should have titled it:
"Personal water-park without the
hillbillys and trailer trash" but I'd still
want
one. Of course you'd need a pretty big
estate for it to not look ridiculous. |
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I'm picturing it landscaped like a
Japanese garden so it would be real
pretty as well. |
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By the way, I've never wanted to go to a
water park because I look at any
enclosed body of water with hundreds
of kids swimming in it as one big toilet
and I know the kids do as well. |
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Dude, if I had a eleventy million dollars I'd have my own chlorinated canal system in my back yard. And I'd swim around and the kids would punt their little boats along. And they would have a Venetian kind of tree house along the way, and then it would turn into a Japanese garden. And there would be pretty german peasant girls with big hand who would give massages on the veranda, and an outside fireplace with a pizza oven and a gas cook top with two wok jets. And a very discreet kegerator with Harp and Bass on tap and a full bar with attached wine cellar cut into the side of a small hill. And a little winged pony that is invisible to everyone but me that I could ride to the store for ice cream. |
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//One presumes you reside in reasonable
proximity.... to [Maxwell...]// |
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Only if he's bloody trespassing. |
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Hey, if you've got eleventy million dollars, why not fill the tubes with that oxygenated fluorocarbon stuff we've all heard about. You know, the liquid you can safely breathe. |
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Apparently the biggest issue is scrubbing the entrained CO2 back out, so there would have to be a constant reticulation system to refresh the liquid. |
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Otherwise you could slope/undulate the tubes and include many air pockets so that if you ever got in trouble you just float up and slide to the nearest air pocket/airlock. |
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...once again. //Add sharks// |
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gr. "Add sharks with fricken lasers"... so you swim faster. |
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This idea could revolutionize the above ground pool
market if it could ever get past safety regulation.
Not so fantasmological when one considers an L shaped or
Uturn pool in and beside a house, or whatever
configuration( ie.Swim out into the garden)
An enclosed tube outside(with air space and somehow
accessible for safety) could have a solar heating effect for
the water temp for swimming and heating or cooling the
house, prevent leaves blowing in, and thus greatly reduce
cleaning.
How about a wall width underwater pipe (same as a
water pipe under a bridge over an open irrigation channel
just shorter) with an underwater door you have to dive
thru connecting the outside to the inside so as to keep
out the water rats and the crooks in wetsuit balaclavas
aftr the eleventy mill. With a doggie door for your pet
retriever. |
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I attended a charity dinner at the home of a millionare who had a pool with a chlorinated canal wrapped around most of the house. |
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They were about five feet wide and as deep, and were spanned by lovely foot-bridges. Water flowed "downhill" from either side of the house into the main pool, which was L shaped. At the crook of the L was a bungalow with a hot tub inside (TV & minibar included) and a water slide on top. |
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It was a pretty impressive display of wealth, especially considering the owner probably only spent two weeks a year living there. |
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Or you could just liven up your swimming pool by putting a big plastic castle in it. |
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See link - I seem to remember [gnormal]
actually built a plastic tubing fish tank. |
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"Constant reticulation system," wouldn't be a doohickey that sprayed stripes on your back? |
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Just sayin', is all I'm sayin'. |
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//It was a pretty impressive display of
wealth, especially considering the owner
probably only spent two weeks a year
living there.
Condiment, Jan 10 2008// |
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I've noticed that. The people with the
nicest houses (the really, really rich) use
them the least. They're always traveling. |
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Can you provide a link [DanDaMan]? |
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If the tubes in the pool formed the letters
of a set of words that when read from
some aerial perspective, questioned one of
the fundamental principles of a well
known religion, would this be known as a
Poolemic? |
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//would this be known as a Poolemic?// |
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See link. (I laughed.) :) |
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Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof
Behind these two hills here
There's a pool
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And when I'm swimming in
Through a tunnel
I shut my eyes
Inside the cabin I make sounds
In through the tubes I send this noise
Behind these two hills here
Fall asleep
And when I float in green grass of tunnel
It flows back
Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof
Behind these two hills here
There's a pool
And when I'm swimming in
Through a tunnel....
I shut my eyes. |
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