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To create Sky Full of Mushrooms you need a few plane loads of paratroopers, each of whom deploys a new type of parachute i.e. ones that form a mushroom shape when deployed.
All that's needed for it to do this is for the top part of the parachute to be connected to an "air transparent" material tube
that hangs underneath and completes the mushroom shape without seriously effecting its aerodynamics. The tube part is of course the stem of the mushroom
The actual paratrooper is concealed within the space provided by this tube stem, with his/her legs keeping the bottom end open, so that the net result is the appearance of a large flock of mushrooms slowly descending to earth.
not office chairs then?
http://www.timesonl.../article7139574.ece
[po, May 29 2010]
Early hot air balloons resembled mushrooms
http://www.oac.cdli.../hi-res/80_1466.jpg
[ldischler, May 29 2010]
The Mysterious Mushroom
http://2.bp.blogspo...m-plate1%5B1%5D.jpg
[xenzag, May 29 2010]
Here ya go, [IanTindal].
http://www.ohmenerv...oads/round-tuit.jpg
[MikeD, May 31 2010]
(?) Because [100 percent] asked...
http://www.flickr.c...29914@N00/634406451
[Canuck, Jun 01 2010]
one kind of mushroom parachute
http://farm4.static...13_579ef08267_m.jpg
[xandram, Jun 02 2010]
[link]
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Please explain "air transparent". |
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It means that air passes through it easily, like it would a fine mesh fishing net, but it is still visually dense enough from a distance to appear to be solid. |
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The stem doesn't necessarily have to be "air transparent" for
the mushrooms to have a stable descent. As such, I give this
idea a bun because it made me happy. |
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(?) This idea would totally rule if it just connected with the air apparent. |
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The trouble is, it would get quite expensive, (since they sink to earth), having to constantly ferry plane-loads skyward. I mean, once they have seen the sky full of mushrooms, I doubt anyone would want to return ever to their pre-sky-filled-with-mushrooms existence. |
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//I despise mushrooms// OK, can the mushrooms, put the
paratroopers in business suits & bowler hats. |
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//I despise mushrooms// Dear oh dear, that's a very extreme position. I wasn't suggesting that you be forced to engage in a compulsory inter-species breeding programme with them. |
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What has turned you against the wonderful world of the mysterious fungi? (see pic) |
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// //I despise mushrooms.// //
I hear [21_Quest] saying that in the voice of the balder of the
two heavies in _Diva_ |
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I think you need to explicitly say somewhere that this idea
has no merit besides the artistic display. Unless your new
parachutes have benefits heretofore untold. |
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I mostly leave the pursuit of practical ideas to others, best suited to such work. My mind is a free agent! |
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//explicitly// It's signed "xenzag," for heaven's sake, Isn't
that enough? |
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So... anybody else start whistling the Mario Overworld Theme? |
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I visit the HB less & less nowadays, due to my
unhealthy obsession with the murky world of
football (soccer) forums, but ideas like this remind
me why I should keep coming back. |
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The fact that I knew who's idea it was before I'd
even clicked on it is neither here nor there. |
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Can the 'shrooms be multi-coloured perchance? |
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You're welcome..... there's less and less of "us" here now. I feel the bakery has become quite a dull place of late. It does this every so often. Perhaps it's the climate. Perhaps the great leak, but whatever it is "Practical Man" is in the ascendancy. |
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At the risk of being accused of kissing your arse, I
implore you to continue. Your ideas are fanciful,
nonsensical and pointless, and yet strangely
beautiful. |
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Even in this brave new practical world we now live
in, there will always be room (nay, a need) for people
like you. |
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Keep the faith, brother/sister. |
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Yes there's less "us" currently, though since some of my ideas are practical I guess I'm a "them". I have no problem with fanciful ideas as long as they don't purport to be realistic. |
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[jtp] If you think giving soldiers sub-optimal equipment to work with is "strangely beautiful" you need professional help. [-] |
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I want more fanciful ideas, though I know the card I play
comes often from "them". The truth is, I like giving
people
like [xen], [hippo], [bristolz], [FJ] (and others) a boring,
negative
analysis because it keeps them right in the driver's
seat:
fretful, guessing, right where they should be, life at the
moment! They give it to me, besides! |
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I also think this place would be shit without them. I
can't
recall a more neutral vote from this side. |
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I'm not going anyway.... just into my hammock for a while, to stare up at the sky, and wait. |
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//If you think giving soldiers sub-optimal
equipment to work with is "strangely beautiful"
you need professional help. [-]// |
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I know [xenzag] mentions paratroopers, but my
assumption was that this was a purely aesthetic
exercise, not military. |
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But yes, you're probably right - I may well need
professional help. |
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Pie in the sky...mushroom pie |
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//Do you think it’d get crowded up there?// |
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Yes it does. I could tell you a few stories of "sky sharks" stealing my air. |
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//If you think giving soldiers sub-optimal equipment to work with is "strangely beautiful" you need professional help.// |
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Our 'chutes are already produced by the lowest bidder, [FT]. They aren't replaced until they are coming apart at the seams, they are packed by witty folk called "Riggers" whom have a tendency to sign "Mickey Mouse" on the chute-pack log and they are deployed from aircraft piloted by the likes of [21Quest]. |
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Fuck it. I'd jump it. I couldn't be that much more lethal. |
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//but didn’t get round to it.// |
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//sub-optimal equipment// |
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Well, it might not be sub-optimal for the intended purpose, which is probably not combat. You could think of it as parade uniform for a kind of vertical parading. |
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~~//I despise mushrooms// Dear oh dear, that's a very extreme position. [...] |
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What has turned you against the wonderful world of the mysterious fungi?~~ |
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Relax, it's not personal. 21 Quest despises everything. |
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That's not true. [21 quest] has as many likes as dislikes....
just as everyone else does. (puffs smugly on pipe of
conciliation) |
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This doesn't have to be limited to paratroopers or skydivers. I seem to recall NASA used some pretty impressive drogue chutes for the Gemini & Apollo missions, so cargo could participate as well. |
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Anyone else see the sublime irony of crates of fresh mushrooms wafting slowly earthward, borne under huge mushrooms? At the very least, it would give the jumpers something to snack on once they have landed (except for 21Q). |
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//Go on then... name one// That will be up to [21 Quest]. He
seems to like KFC though. |
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He likes the blumpkin idea. |
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//21 Quest despises everything// Not actually true, but it
was the point of my _Diva_ reference. |
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//He likes the blumpkin idea.// |
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That might have been a typo; the idea involved mushroom patterns, which we've already established he abhors. |
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Hmmm. In a new development, he does apparently like slinkys. Maybe that's the chink in his armour we can use to rehabilitate him into society. |
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//Maybe that's the chink in his armour we can use to rehabilitate him into society.// He keeps an attack bear.... I'd be careful. |
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//He keeps an attack bear.... I'd be careful.// |
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As he lives on a different continent, I have the bravery of being out of range. |
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I was poking fun at 21Q long before it was cool. Now that we've set our differences aside, everyone starts doing it. |
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Well, he's not quite a bully, if that's what we're after. I
think it's really hard to figure out when someone is
seriously being bitter, and when they're having a little fun
with it. I like to think he's having fun with it, sometimes;
though the intonations often come off smug and
unappreciative. We've all been there from time to time.
Anyways, mushrooms, yea. Can I just air out the simple
fact that this would be enhanced via the ingestion of
magic mushrooms? |
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// I was poking fun at 21Q long before it was cool. // |
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Chill out. Just think of yourself as a fashion leader. |
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// often come off smug and unappreciative // |
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Yes, but he still only manages about 30 to 35 milliBubbas, even on his best (worst) days. |
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I somehow keep thinking of cream of mushroom soup. Cambell's,
to be exact. Every time I see this idea. No parachute there.
( I think the bakery suffers from the diversion of so many other
places to visit, other sites, other worlds, so many more than
before.) |
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