h a l f b a k e r yThe halfway house for at-risk ideas
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Elephants are a bit buggered due to global warming, even the use of heat-conductive ear radiators might not do the trick.
The snow shoes will help elephants to get to cooler climes, such as the slopes of Kilimanjaro, or the Himalayas, yeti's permitting.
"Elefant" on tracks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefant
Designed by Ferdinand Porsche. [8th of 7, Jun 02 2019]
https://ca.images.s...ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 03 2019]
How to coordinate the journey
Give Wild Elephants Smartphones
[notexactly, Jun 11 2019]
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
Destination URL.
E.g., https://www.coffee.com/
Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)
|
| |
They seem essential to me. I'm looking forward to
the video of you fitting them to the first herd. |
|
| |
Yes - have you heard of them? |
|
| |
It would be more effective to fit the elephants with tracks. There is Prior Art ... |
|
| |
For some reason this sounded like it could have been one of
my ideas, and I thought I was losing my mind and didn't
remember posting it. Good Job [not_morrison_rm], we should
colaborate sometime. hahahaha |
|
| |
Hmm....blissmiss, after a trawl I did find a elephant shoe mention, lacking the snow bit though - |
|
| |
"Elephant shoes"?
— mcscotland, Apr 10 2002>" and that seems to be that.. |
|
| |
//It would be more effective to fit the elephants with tracks. |
|
| |
Tried that, but the elephants kept squashing the caterpillars...so it's A) make the elephants lighter or B) use that Ferengi Enlargo-Ray to get bigger caterpillars. |
|
| |
So, a set of woolly mammoth slippers. |
|
| |
What if the secretly love snow and can't wait for the next ice age? [link] |
|
| |
I wonder if their ears are burning right now. |
|
| |
They haven't paid for the waterskis yet. |
|
| |
Hang on - Hannibal presumably solved this problem some
years ago, no? |
|
| |
Yes, he got Face, B.A. and Murdock to herd them up the rear ramp of a C-130, then dropped them by parachute. |
|
| |
I can't help thinking there's a structural problem; that pachyderms - given their weight - couldn't splay their legs out far enough, safely to snowshoe. |
|
| |
Wanna bet ? The AT-AT Imperial Walkers in TESB are modelled on elephant locomotion and gait. There was a programme about it on The Discoverery Channel, so it must be true. |
|
| |
So you're suggesting growing elephants by hydroponics ? |
|
| |
I have an image in my head now. |
|
| |
Picture this : the snowy wastes of siberia, post global
warming,
now a temperate grassland. |
|
| |
The camera pans out further : a herd of bewildered
elephants stands around wondering why they're wearing
snowshoes. |
|
| |
& not a flake of the stuff in sight. |
|
| |
The camera pans out further : Then zooms in on a small
figure in the distance : |
|
| |
It's [not_morrison_rm] nailing a new set of snowshoes to the
feet of a newborn calf as he shouts "you'll thank me when
the snow comes back!" |
|
| |
// I have an image in my head now... It's [not_morrison_rm] nailing a new set of snowshoes to the feet of a newborn calf // |
|
| |
[Skewed], you're channelling the spirit of Spike Milligan, stop it ! |
|
| |
Why? did you want it back? |
|
| |
(Wearily realises that no true genius is
recognised in his/her lifetime, so it's good I'm
not a genius) |
|
| |
Archimedes. Shakespear. Newton. Brunel. Einstein. Feynmann. |
|
| |
How much dead keratin is on the hoof of a new born calf? They are up quick. |
|
| |
An elephant calf? they don't have any (accept the toes, which
are on top like ours not underneath). |
|
| |
Elephants don't have
'hooves' like a horse or a cow they have pads of soft tissue. |
|
| |
Elephants are highly social creatures (more so than humans, as elephants very rarely kill their own kind) and all the females in a herd are normally close relatives. This means that not only is the calf protected by its mother, but also by a group of concerned aunts. Anyone wanting to nail things to a baby elephant will have an extremely short life expectancy. |
|
| |
<Smiles, nods, makes encouraging gestures, proffers hammer and nails to [n_m_rm], prepares to run/> |
|
| |
//Elephants are higly social creatures (more so than humans,
as elephants very rarely kill their own kind)// |
|
| |
There is an argument to be made that this is evidence of the
reverse & simply an expression of our more highly developed
social nature. |
|
| |
No, I think he meant "higly". Have you ever seen an elephant
try to built something? It comes out all higly pigly. |
|
| |
// There is an argument to be made // |
|
| |
... and no doubt you're quite prepared to slaughter anyone who disagrees, entirely for their own good of course ... ? |
|
| |
Well.. only if all other arguments fail, got another train I can
burrow? |
|
| |
Sure. We'll load it with chemical weapons and nuclear waste, and tack on a couple of coaches for the friends and relatives of the victims of your previous attempt at being a railway switchman. |
|
| |
C'mon, show everyone your Many-Armed Form ... |
|
| |
Surely my aspect as Ganesha would be more appropriate here,
we can rationalise it as removing obstacles to new
beginnings? |
|
| |
But really I just want to wear the elephant head. |
|
| |
Well, if the head fits ... |
|
| |
I could counter that keratin is structurally in skin but no, credit where credit is due, my mind was totally somewhere else. |
|
| |
But now I am imagining a spray-painted punk calf with pads and ears pierced, named Ganesha |
|
| |