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First a bit of boilerplate, I'm not suggesting making a
liquid
sand
box that hurts cats.... hold on... just got an idea.
Okay, a litterbox where AFTER the cat does their
business,
sensors
see that it's left and air nozzles underneith open up,
liquifying
the
sand so the cat's waste
sinks to the bottom.
There, a tribute to 8th of 7 and the basic idea with some
actual
functionality besides sinking a cat. (Although he would
have
wanted the cat sinking part.)
(Mic drop)
(Picks up mic)
New feature: Sensors detect the weight of the cat poo
and only activate air in that one location.
Then it moves it to a removable disposable bag on the
side of the box.
Liquid sand.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=My4RA5I0FKs
[doctorremulac3, Feb 23 2022]
[link]
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Hopefully not "right after..." |
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LOL. Good point, let's put a timer on it. |
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//Hopefully not "right after..."// |
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Let's see if I can channel what he would say. |
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"We think this is a fine idea, and of course not right after.
During, and three feet deep with a two second shut off timer. No cat... no poop." |
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Here, you dropped this. You don't want to get sand in it. |
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As a cat guy, I quite like this. |
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Hey, just occurred to me, you could have a funnel
like thing where all the waste gathers in one spot in
the middle. Easier to clean. |
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So the cat does its thing, the sand goes liquid and the
waste hits this funnel shaped bottom of the unit,
maybe falls into a cup you can remove. |
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//a tribute to 8th of 7// |
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To any abomination, he would bring the bomb. |
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Can't wait to see how you make liquid sand. Wouldn't the
box get really hot, like lava? I hope the cat is a safe
distance away, and the house too. |
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Oh shoot, assumed everybody saw the post. I'll put it up. (link) |
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I think you're being ribbed for not using the word fluidized. |
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Good times. But we're going "no-nerd" here. Liquid sand
sounds better. |
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Nice idea. Love to you all, near and far. May tomorrow be a
better day. |
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Thanks you blissy. This has been a very horrible day. |
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Let's be thankful that we all live
relatively free and safe and hope for the best for our
brothers and sisters in the Ukraine. |
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How about speakers in the sides
of the tray to vibrate the sand at the right frequency should
work nicely too and might be less likely to cause cat litter to
fly all over the floor? |
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I don’t think it’s the vibration or movement so
much as the air actually mixing with the sand and
pushing the grains apart. Plus the kitty might hear
this thing after it did its business and never come
back. |
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Although just vibrating the thing like you would a
gold mining pan might make the stuff sink into the
sand. |
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Of course a talking cat might point out "Hay
humons, we bury ums anywayz, let uz handlez it." (I
didn't way it could spell.) |
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You might want a loop with filtration for the air. Forcing large
volumes of air at relatively high pressure through cat excretia
is a good way to make your house smell like shit. |
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(does the math, let's see, maybe... 20cfm blowing across
maybe... 2 pounds of shit... for maybe... 30 seconds... uh
huh...) Okay, my calcs might be a little off but I think this is
the answer: |
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house+this invention = house+smell of shit. |
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Let me know if my calcs are off but I think they're not. |
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Could have a vent to the outside but this is quickly
becoming the worlds most expensive litter box. |
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New feature: Sensors detect the weight of the cat
poo and only activate air in that one location. |
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Then it moves it to a removable disposable bag on
the side of the box. |
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Counterpoint: what if cat poo is less dense than the
sand/kitty-litter? |
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It might be less dense than the sand, but not the
sand air mixture. Plus sand’s going to stick to it
and make it heavier. “Liquid sand” is just an
incredible dense sandstorm with very low velocity
wind basically just bubbling up just enough to lift
the particles and separate them. |
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I think. Good counterpoint though. |
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If it will float on water it will float on fluidized sand. |
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It just got more expensive, we need a whirlpool. |
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But can cat turds float on water? I’ve done
shockingly little research on that question. |
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And then would the whirlpool even help? Again, I’d
need a big research grant. |
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Does it matter? Either way, it's blowing the stench and ablated
surface particles from the litterbox around the room. |
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Yea, definitely need air returns around the thing to
vent to the outside. |
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It would be the world's most expensive cat box. |
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Might suck the cat into the ducts too which 8th would
have approved of. |
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Whoa! Where'd that website come from? It's friggin'
awesome! |
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//Venting odors should not add much to the cost.// |
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Every place I ever rented, the landlord thought venting the
stove hood outside was an extravagant outlay. As such,
cooking odors are exhausted 3" above the intake inevitably
setting off the cheapest they can get away with smoke alarm
system. |
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//But can cat turds float on water?// |
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Most cat litters do a reasonable job of desiccating the
offending cat offerings. These are very much lower density
than water because it's just dried out... actually, I don't
really know what's going to be in cat shit, since they're
predators living on a processed diet of essentially just
meat,it's all absorbable, unless they eat a cockroach, the
skeleton isn't absorbable so they will vomit that up for you
to clean up. Sand wouldn't do a very good desiccating job,
the air movement from fluidizing it might. |
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Because joined up thinking is rarer than rocking horse shit,
this is likely against fire codes, you can't have unrestricted
access to fresh air - fires love that. The way to go here
would be an activated charcoal and HEPA filter. Some
activated charcoal in the litter wouldn't do any harm either. |
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//Because joined up thinking is rarer than rocking horse shit, this is likely against fire codes// |
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<thought about it for a bit> |
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Definitely [marked-for-tagline]. |
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