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This floor consists of a pool, sensors, and a number of robotic actuators. The sensors detect when anything is near the floor and position a support under it, such that each time a foot (or anything else) lands on the floor a solid support is moved under it before it arrives.
The top of the supports
are made of a material with the same refractive index as water. The bottoms where the robotics are are made to look like fish.
Pumps inset into the bottoms of the supports keep them from splashing or pushing around the water too much.
The water is warmed and it is suggested to go barefoot and not drop your phone. (the phone would end up in about an inch of water)
edit: It occurs to me that an inch of water underlayed with a good bit of glass underlayed with a pool would serve exactly the same purpose, but unfortunately that wouldn't be nearly as complicated, dangerous, expensive, or failure-prone.
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(+) but the tech team is going to have a riot with this one. |
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Oh sorry... it was a malfunctioning grommet on the servo. |
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if you want to walk on water, find a frozen pond |
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//The bottoms where the robotics are are made to look like
fish.// [+] |
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Could a large swarm of robotic fish support a walking human? |
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I have trouble walking on sidewalks, so water may not be my
thing. ( I broke my arm walking down a San Francisco cracked
cement sidewalk, on my way to a doctor appointment for a
sore back.) |
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At least I wouldn't break anything when I fall. Now drowning,
that's a whole nother ballgame. |
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Most "walk on water" ideas rely on buoyancy. |
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What about footwear with impeller vectored thrusters below the water level ? With dynamic active thrust control, the equivalent of sideways frictional force could be provided. |
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// broke my arm ... on my way to ... appointment for a sore back. // |
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<Regards [bliss] doubtfully/> |
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Have you ever heard the term "incident prone" ? |
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